This is one of the nicest news stories I've read in a long time. Among all the depressing news it's good to be reminded just how many truly good people there are in every community and all.around us www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I wish I had an Anglo-Saxon chapel in my house

I will never get bored of visiting Peterborough cathedral

Pope Leo XIV today: "Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!"

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Visiting old churches is like treasure hunting. This incredible carving of an apostle is over 1000 years old and is on display at St Kyneburgha's church in Castor near Peterborough.