In small things, if one pays close enough attention to them, can often be seen wider trends.

I love a good cemetery, and cemeteries do not come much better than the one in Highgate in London, which I visited recently while staying nearby.

It's a weekday evening.  We've just had a great dinner.  And now, relaxed and comfortable in our family room, we tune in to the latest war coverage from Ukraine.

The Archdiocese of Seattle participated in a pilot program for selected juvenile offenders.

"UGCC priests have been heroic in ministering to congregations under attack, and while many have families to care for and perhaps move to safety, the priests themselves are staying in place."

"Putin's recent speeches have also displayed an almost psychotic hatred of Ukraine and Ukrainians, to the point where entirely sober-minded analysts with whom I am in contact wonder whether the Russian autocrat is coming unhinged."

According to a Gallup poll, the percentage of the American population that now "identifies" as LGBTQ+ has doubled by comparison with ten years ago, and now stands at 7.1 percent.

In the preface to the second edition of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley said that anyone who wanted to establish a modern dictatorship would be advised to allow the population complete sexual freedom and freedom to take drugs, leaving everything else to the control of the dictatorship.

People, it seems, are increasingly unable to bear the presence in a room of someone who is of different political opinion from theirs.