The power of a good story or a great raconteur is incalculable.

When there’s no chance for droughts to correct back to normal rainfall, they’re no longer ‘droughts’, they're a change in the climate.

Climate change deniers are still at it, proudly posting contrarian opinions on social media. While they’re stroking their egos, the world burns.

Our still newish dad has discovered some canny tricks to managing a little person in a snit.

Little kids expect their parents to have all the answers – and we don’t, far from it. But that’s all right. Because, sometimes, the best moments come from mistakes.

We continue to do nothing as water dries up, fires flare and ecosystems die because of the climate crisis

It doesn’t matter how silly the record is, as long as it’s a world-beating one, you’ll feel a sense of achievement, it seems.

People the world over are reacting to images coming out of Butcha, Ukraine, of bound civilians killed by Russian forces and mass graves.

Unlike any other conflict in recent memory, the Russia-Ukraine war is in our faces no matter where we live on the planet thanks to social media.

Tell your children you love them and will always be there for them. Because humanity needs compassion and kindness, not more dictators with sad childhoods inflicting damage on all of us.

A war in Europe and the price of preschools have more power to scare our columnist nowadays than supernatural imaginings.