Here’s what seems to me to be an extraordinary story from the US. It’s a blog post by a mum of four (8, 7, 4, 7 months) about her family field trip to a funeral director. Here’s an extract: When I set up the appointment, the funeral director said, “How

There was a nice piece in yesterday’s Mirror about Richard Coles. In the eighties he was one half of the Communards; now he’s a Church of England priest. In an age in which churchpeople are customarily pelted with derision, it’s worth calling to mind some of the virtuous deeds that