Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Rob Weinberg has just launched a new blog, Where the World’s Going. Rob introduces his blog thus:
For some time now, I have been coming across news items and stories which strike me as illustrating two major processes that are at work in the world – the disintegration of outmoded ways of thinking and doing, and [...]
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I was thrilled to learn that six women Nobel Peace Prize winners (only 12 women have ever won the Nobel Prize) have put out a statement calling on the Iranian government to free the seven leading Bahá’ís who are currently in jail in Tehran.
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire (founders of the Peace People in [...]
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I had the interesting experience last week of being telephoned by a government minister to alert me to something that is to be included in forthcoming legislation.
Barbara Follett MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Government Equalities Office, phoned ahead of the publication last Thursday of the statement by Harriet Harman MP, Framework for a Fairer [...]
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Crowds around the fancy dress parade, in important part of Welwyn’s family fun day
Welwyn Festival is an annual week of fun, education and entertainment in the small Hertfordshire town of Welwyn (not to be mistaken for the neighbouring newcomer town of Welwyn Garden City). The festival climaxes with a family fun day on Singlers Marsh [...]
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I like this. According to this story on the BBC website religious leaders on official visits in the north London borough of Barnet will be able to park for nothing using special permits.
Applicants of all faiths including Baha’i, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism and Rastafarianism can make use of the scheme.
Barnet Council leader Mike Freer [...]
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Left to Right: Farid Afnan, Dorothy Foster, Hassan Afnan, Kishan Manocha
The late Joe Foster was a wonderful and active Bahá’í who was a natural teacher. Joe taught mechanical engineering at a college in the north of England, but found himself becoming involved in promoting the inclusion of the Bahá’í Faith in religious education syllabuses and [...]
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One of the strengths of the UK Parliament is the time allotted to MPs to question government ministers about the work of their departments. On Tuesday 24 June it was the turn of ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including Dr Kim Howells MP, Minister for the Middle East to answer oral questions in [...]
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Some years ago Mrs Barnabas and I took a holiday in the Basque region of south west France, close to the Spanish border.
One of the attractions in the area the tiny settlement of l’Hôpital St Blaise (more detailed page on French Wikipedia) on the Way of St James, the ancient pilgrim route to Santiago de [...]
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I was intrigued by this story on the BBC today.
Apparently elderly people are particularly vulnerable to dehydration. It can cause dizziness – leading to potentially serious falls – constipation and confusion.
The manager of one care home in Suffolk decided to do something about this.
Staff at The Martins care home in Bury St Edmunds started a [...]
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The Bahá’í community’s international governing council, the Universal House of Justice, has just written another wonderful letter to the Bahá’ís in Iran. The letter is both compassionate and challenging.
Equality of women and men
It calls on the beleaguered Bahá’ís in the land where the Bahá’í Faith originated in the 19th century to help “remove the barriers [...]
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