Thought for the Week

by Rob Fry

IT'S confession time, apparently it’s good for the soul? Here goes… Anyone else ever offered a little more “help” with your kids’ homework than they should have? Well, can you imagine my shock when visiting a friend, I came face to face with a piece of our daughter's “art homework” on their wall – in the form of a local housing association's annual calendar! Do we need to return that book token? Ooops!

Should I go on? As a teenager I had aspirations of being in a band, my main obstacle to this plan of course was the lack of musical ability and this was in an era when that mattered. Undeterred I found some obscure tracks and “made it my own” taking the kudos that went with… Ooops again!

Perhaps further transgressions - I’ll leave to another time, safe in the knowledge that I’m an average bloke, human, I get things wrong - sometimes, mean well, mostly, yet make mistakes, errors of judgement, etc.

In 2007 rugby team were in their second successive World Cup final. The boys in white were behind when Mark Cueto put the ball over the line which literally could have been a game changer. However, the try was disallowed and the best team in the competition lifted the Webb Ellis trophy. In the post-match interviews, Cueto and team members rather than bleating how hard done by they’d been, were heard to say “we would not want to win on a wrong decision”. Which is a tough call to make when placed in that position.

What we say and do does matter. Just like truth and lies, what’s wrong and right.

At this point in time does it feel that certain values don’t count for much?

We now know that £350 million a week won’t be going to the NHS with us out of Europe, does that matter? “Take back control…” what does that mean? And will Donald Trump really make America great again? We’ll see.

A post truth era? That’s not for me.