Monthly Archives: January 2026

This morning the price of gold broke the £4,000/oz level. Even the Beeb news has had charts this week showing the exponential rise in bullion prices. I don’t think they were so upfront in drawing the main lesson that the accelerating rise in price over the last few years teaches: that it indicates the abandonment of confidence in the world financial system, which is built on escalating debt and rapidly depleting trust.

A Christian apologist on YouTube suggests that (American) public schools no longer teach children how to think, but instead what to feel. Which is a recipe for disaster. I think the same is true of churches over here in Britain, which is a recipe for spiritual shipwreck.

I wrote back in December about the distrust, by Christians of all people, of the present working class movement towards Christianity. The veritable Who’s Who of Christian opponents to this groundswell, as it was manifested in Tommy Robinson’s Christmas carol concert in Whitehall, is typical of this distrust. I think I showed in my piece on the latter that there is no evidence whatsoever of cynical racist motivation, though of course pockets of almost any kind of corruption will be seen somewhere in any mass-movement.

My last-but-one post was prompted by my reading of a book on C. S. Lewis’s Narnia series. I’m just completing the inevitable follow-up exercise of re-visiting the series itself, for the first time since I read them to our kids forty years ago. I should add that my parents unaccountably failed to introduce me to the books when I was a kid, so this is only my second time through.