This page collects all of the posts created by the Headmaster of Rossall School. These are reflections on a very wide range of topics related to education, history, and ethics.
Yesterday evening I arrived home to find Fiona and Alicia watching Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It is an extraordinarily powerful piece of drama and it is impossible not...Read More
No parent wants their child to grow up to be boorish or insensitive to the feelings of others. No parent wants their child to grow up to become a...Read More
Raphael Lemkin 1900-1959 Raphael Lemkin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on no less than ten occasions and he is best remembered today for coining the term ‘genocide’ and...Read More
Shane MacGowan (1957-2023) The passing of Shane MacGowan did not come as a complete surprise. Of course, he is famous for having been the riotously drunken and chaotically self-destructive lead...Read More
If you go on Amazon, you will see that it is possible to purchase a copy of a book written by Herbert A James entitled, ‘School Ideas – Sermons Preached in...Read More