Olenka Hamilton

Three is the magic number

As a Catholic, is there an excuse for not having more children while you can?
a recurring topic of conversation among my jolly group of “mum friends” at the moment seems to be about whether or not to go for the third c...

Keeping the past alive

How vivid accounts of terrible events can help to strengthen our faith
i have been reading the golden apple of samarkand by lala wilbraham, a wonderful new book which has evaded the reviewers, perhaps because it...

Could ‘Housing First’ end homelessness?

Charities are calling on new housing minister Michael Gove to roll out the bold initiative
at the beginning of the first lockdown in march 2020, a government scheme called “everyone in” succeeded in getting almost every single pers...

Street-art salvation

<I>Olenka Hamilton</I> speaks to two artists who used to be homeless on the benefits of using art to help the vulnerable find a way off the streets
if you go to positivenote.co.uk , you can watch david tovey and mitchel ceney painting together to the soundtrack of bach’s mass in b minor....

‘Preparing people for life’

Ampleforth College’s new headmaster Robin Dyer is laying a solid foundation for the future at the ‘Catholic Eton’. By Olenka Hamilton
headmaster robin dyer was hired by ampleforth in september 2019 to restructure the school after difficulties to do with the aftermath of the...

A home away from home

In Monmouthshire, epitomised by the energy of the Mass at Usk’s Church of St David Lewis and St Francis Xavier, Catholic roots run deep
when i was preparing to leave london for the south welsh countryside early last year, a priest friend warned me not be complacent. “people l...

Tackling modern slavery head on

Big business must address the toxic human rights issues in its supply chains. By <I>Olenka Hamilton</I>
modern slavery exists somewhere in the supply chain of every company in britain today, according to peter hugh smith, ceo of investment firm...

Activism doesn't protect the most vulnerable

Subjecting those in need to mindless activism, when compassion is required, does more harm than good, says <I>Olenka Hamilton</I>
last month, brighton and sussex university hospitals nhs trust asked midwives to stop referring to “breastfeeding” and instead to call it “c...

RIP Lord Belhaven – An Officer and Gentleman

my father robin, lord belhaven and stenton, died on december 2 last year. he would have been 94 in february. “he had a good innings,” people...

The 'buffer zone amendment' is a shameful attack on authentic freedoms: The Lords must throw it out

parliament is in the process of debating the public order bill which, in amendment nc11, would introduce “buffer zones” outside abortion fac...

Perhaps I should leave teaching to the trained professionals

i have sat in numerous hospital waiting rooms over the past few weeks trying to get to the bottom of why one of my children spends most of t...

The women fighting to stop compulsory sex education in Welsh schools

a few weeks ago i took my daughters aged 2 and 3 to the tate britain to look at some art, but also to try out the two children’s play areas ...

The problem with the 'new allegations' against St John Paul II

as a child in poland in the 1950s, my mother lived squeezed into a single room in the centre of krakow, with her father, brother, aunt, uncl...

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