I had that moment to say something… and I just drove off.

People who take up the cause of domestic abuse usually do so because something in their personal life has galvanized them into it. Many activists have been victims themselves; others take it up because they are close friends or relatives of a victim. But occasionally bystanders are galvanized purely because they see a noxious example… Continue reading I had that moment to say something… and I just drove off.

Any mug could have done it

Albert Earnest Coates was a master surgeon, soldier, teacher and humanitarian. Refusing to leave his patients during the Second World War, Coates became a Prisoner of War of the Japanese. An ex POW, Private Bill Hood, said of Coates "... they, the POW camp doctors, were all good, but Colonel Coates stood out... he not… Continue reading Any mug could have done it