Joanna Bogle

Job: journalist and author, so somewhat cynical about the Internet which threatens the culture of writing on which my living is based. Husband Jamie and I live cheerily among lots of books and no TV in an overcrowded home. I hurry about by bicycle and probably annoy people. I’m currently studying for a BA (Divinity) at Maryvale Institute, and loving it. I loathe instant coffee,extreme feminism, narrow-mindedness, bigotry, cold pasta, “inclusive language” and stewed tea. Am happy attending a Mass in the Ordinary Form, love good hymns. I like dropping in to Westminster Cathedral for weekday Mass, especially the glorious sung Mass at 5.30pm, which makes me glad to be a Londoner. Am extremely fond of my nephews, nieces, great-nephew, great-niece, and godchildren and I also like buttered toast, sticky chocolate cake, rain,old-fashioned detective stories, Pope Benedict XV1, Pope John Paul II, making jam, winter teatimes, sleeping out of doors on warm summer nights, Christmas, Pimms,ginger wine, and making patchwork quilts.

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Guess who invented 'holiday trees'

Joanna Bogle | 17 Dec 2009

Today’s secularist zealots should be unhappy to learn exactly whose company they are travelling in.

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Let's have done with the 'Dark Ages'

Joanna Bogle | 29 Sep 2009

The glint of gold in some long buried treasure is shedding new light on the culture of ancient Britain.

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The disappearing English garden

Joanna Bogle | 23 Jul 2009

Gardening is about gratification, but it’s delayed. Perhaps that’s why some neighbourhoods are covered in concrete.

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How could they be so greedy?

Joanna Bogle | 12 May 2009

The determination of British MPs to feather their nests may bring down the government.

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Joyful and triumphant

Joanna Bogle | 23 Apr 2009

Susan Boyle brought reality to TV in a way that blew the genre to pieces.

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Henry VIII: petulant, lustful greedy - but never protestant

Joanna Bogle | 26 Mar 2009

500 years after his rule began the Tudor tyrant's tragic religious legacy seems almost accidental.

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All boxed in

Joanna Bogle | 23 Sep 2008

It's in the nature of social engineers to want to force us all into their own ideological box.

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What if there were no keyboards?

Joanna Bogle | 1 Aug 2008

By typing everything we lose vital skills. And the issue isn’t just computers, but all related technology.

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As it was in the beginning

Joanna Bogle | 1 Jul 2008

Why sexual issues matter enough to cause a schism in the Anglican communion.

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A tale of two sisters

Joanna Bogle | 2 May 2008

In the mad world of 21st century relationships the home of two sisters incurs a tax while that of ‘civil partners’ is exempt.

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