Bob’s Banter by Robert Clements

Sixty-nine candidates elected unopposed! Just like that. No ballot papers warmed by human fingers. No queues outside schools. No indelible […]

The other day I watched a wife look after her disabled husband. He was a surly, grumpy sort who did

World leaders, ladies and gentlemen, has officially stopped sleeping. Not because of climate change or inflation, but because sleep has

Since you visited a church sir, I suppose you went looking for blessings. That cathedral is grand enough to give

There is a strange irony playing out in full public view, yet many refuse to see it. While the sons

He fell! The pavement had been unkind to him, he hadn’t seen the paver block sticking out, uneven, arrogant, catching

While the rest of the world sits with diaries open and gym memberships renewed, resolving to drink more water and

January has a smell to it. Somewhere between a new diary and a gym membership that has not yet been

Some of the most powerful sermons are never preached from pulpits, they are lived out in everyday moments, in taxis,

I watched you on television sir, entering a church on Christmas Day, a cathedral in the capital, cameras clicking as