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Dec 21, 2024 | 
express.co.uk | Graham Tomlin
This was the year of elections. More than 100 countries around the world, including many of the world's most populous nations - Brazil, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico, for example - all held national polls this past year. Around half of the world’s population voted for new governments during the past 12 months. Yet what difference did it make? In almost all of these elections, the incumbent parties faced setbacks.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
express.co.uk | Graham Tomlin
18:24, Thu, Dec 19, 2024 | UPDATED: 18:26, Thu, Dec 19, 2024 Link copied Bookmark This was the year of elections. More than 100 countries, including many of the world’s most populous – Brazil, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Mexico – all held national polls in this past year. Around half of the world’s population voted for new governments during the past 12 months. Yet what difference did it make? In almost all of these elections, the incumbent parties faced setbacks.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
ft.com | Graham Tomlin
The days running up to Christmas are usually filled with shopping — frantically searching department stores, or Amazon, to find the right...
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Graham Tomlin
Some time ago, I found myself sitting at a dinner opposite a Labour peer. We chatted over various things as the evening proceeded. Just before we were getting up to leave a new topic came up. “I am a convinced campaigner for assisted dying,” she said. “As a bishop, I suspect you’re not.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Graham Tomlin
Some time ago, I found myself sitting at a dinner opposite a Labour peer. We chatted over various things as the evening proceeded. Just before we were getting up to leave a new topic came up. “I am a convinced campaigner for assisted dying,” she said. “As a bishop, I suspect you’re not. Why don’t you think we should do it?” Put on the spot, struggling to know what to say, and knowing I probably had one line to deliver as we stood up to leave, I said something like this: “Life is a gift from God.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
anglican.ink | Graham Tomlin
The College acknowledges that for survivors of church abuse the publication of the Makin Review is an immensely painful and challenging time. As a College we pray for all those impacted after the Makin Review revealed the abhorrent crimes of John Smyth and the tragic failures of the Church’s response. The Revd Sue Colman was named in the report, and has served as a part-time voluntary chaplain for a number of years in the life of this College.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
anglican.ink | Graham Tomlin
Given the polarised nature of American politics and the venomous nature of the debates, the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was not entirely a surprise, even if a massive shock to the system. It was both tragic for those who were killed and yet a relief for everyone that Trump survived, not least for the unimaginable consequences across the country if he had not.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Graham Tomlin
It used to be the case that money got you everything you need. Nowadays there is a new currency in town. The true currency of the modern age is attention. We live in an attention economy and economies value what is scarce. The rise in the value of attention correlates with the diminishing of our ability to pay attention. In 2004, the average attention span on a screen was 2½ minutes. Some years later it was 75 seconds. Now, we last just 47 seconds before we click on something else more interesting.
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May 6, 2024 | 
seenandunseen.com | Graham Tomlin |Harry Gibbins |Natalie Garrett |Krish Kandiah
I meet many anxious people as I wait for meetings in the Palace Westminster, but one in particular stands out. As I was queueing to get through security, a breathless American man rushed over asking if he was in the right place to meet the Minister of State for Universities. Once I had reassured him that he was, and he had caught his breath, I asked him where he was from and what he did for a job. He told me he was a social psychologist from New York.
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May 2, 2024 | 
seenandunseen.com | Graham Tomlin |Natalie Garrett |George Pitcher |Harry Gibbins
Column Character Comment 4 min read The story of Huw Edwards presents challenges to anyone who wonders how to respond appropriately. The news anchor is back, on the news agenda rather than presenting it, having resigned from the BBC on “medical advice”. In news terms, it seems a long time ago – nearly a year – when stories emerged that he had paid a teenager for what are blushingly called “explicit images”.
