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I find that increasingly I'm forgiven for being grumpy.  At my age it is almost as though people expect it of me. So I don't disappoint them. One of my little 'grumps' is that people don't trouble to remember things any more. They just get out their smart phone and look it up; addresses, phone numbers, where they live!  Like many youngsters of the time I was brought up to remember poems, passages from Shakespeare plays, history dates, prayers and verses from the Bible. It didn't do me any harm.  It provided a little store of things treasured away in my...

Extremism Lord God,we pray today for our world,haunted by the spectre of extremism. We pray for our Intelligence services -those in the front line of monitoring suspicious activity,infiltrating terror cells,tracking suspects,thwarting plots,often at great risk to themselves.Wherever extremism rears its head,may moderation and justice prevail. We think of police,ambulance crews,fire servicesand hospital staff -those trained to deal with a terrorist incident,potentially having to cope with mass casualtiesin the event of an attack.Wherever extremism rears its head,may moderation and justice prevail. We think of the victims of terrorism -those who have been killed in atrocities;those who have been maimed,often suffering life-changing...