Author Archives: Daniel Singleton

Do you feel a change since the last general election? This is a genuine question. Of course, there has been some change in style of leadership and different faces in key positions, but has there been a material change? As I am writing the local […]

Recently, it seems as though the newspapers have been full of stories of freebies, fashion, and football matches. This is in relation to some donations and gifts that the Prime Minister and his family have enjoyed. Then there have been accusatory articles about the salary of […]

A response to recent events by Daniel Singleton Our hearts go out to the victims of the original tragedy in Southport. Words are inadequate when people are faced with such loss and tragedy, and our prayers are with the victims’ families. I am very concerned […]

Change is in the air. Could this be due to the change of personnel in the Commons? Perhaps because England is actually winning football matches these days? (The men at least; the women are already champions!) Or is it because summer seems to have come […]

Well, we are off – General Election 2024 is announced – campaigning has started … I think most of is feel that the campaigning has been happening in a kind of “phony war” style for some time. The most attention-grabbing news in this election has […]

I wrote a blog in 2015 at the time of the Paris attacks, when extremists attacked the offices of a magazine called Charlie Hebdo. As a means of standing in solidarity with those in Paris, many people took up the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag. But there was […]

I seem to be constantly doing battle with Facebook and other realms of social media to escape the advertising and distracting video clips I didn’t want to watch. I get about three posts from genuine friends and then I’m stuck in a world of advertising […]

It seems that we increasingly lurk from one crisis to another. The horrors of the last week in the Middle East can stir our emotions in many ways and it is right that we should be attentive to the suffering of others wherever they are. […]

As we move away from the COVID crisis and lockdown seems an ever distant memory, we can find ourselves looking back at what we had to do with a certain bemusement. Did we really huddle outside around fires in our gardens with friends, or on […]

It was my birthday recently and, strangely, I was looking forward to the day. Growing up, birthdays were not a big thing. The Singletons made more of Christmas, which of course is a birthday of sorts but at Christmas everybody gets to exchange gifts. Christmas […]