Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 612 )

• Oppenheimer

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.It’s that time of year when I can get easily distracted by the ‘silly... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Seagulls

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 with Zoe Ball.The silly season has clearly begun.A friend of mine has just drawn my... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Happiness

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought with Zoe Ball on BBC Radio 2.Do you remember all those Nordic Noir telly series a few years ago – like... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Ziggy

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Show.Some things mature with age. Like taste in music. In my case, at least. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Columba and Kherson

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Columba and KhersonNearly forty years ago I spent a week on the... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Shaping the Year

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.This might come as news to you, but today – 2 June – is National Fish... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Role of UK in a Changing World

  This is the text of a speech I gave in a debate in the House of Lords (Grand Committee) yesterday. The debate was secured by the Lord Bishop of St Albans and... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• This is the Text of This Morning’s Presidential Address t...

  This is the text of this morning’s Presidential Address to the twenty fourth Diocesan Synod of the Diocese of Leeds.When Jesus instructed his friends to “love... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Ukraine: One Year On

  This is the text of a commissioned article published today in the Yorkshire Post on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Levelling Up?

  This is Hansard’s record of my speech in yesterday’s Committee stage debate in the House of Lords as we began line-by-line scrutiny of the Levelling Up and... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Feet of Clay

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.When I was just twenty years old I worked in France for six months. Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Borderlands

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.President Zelenskiy’s address to Parliament yesterday was another... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Teachers

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.When I visit schools – usually primary schools – I always get asked... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Levelling Up

  This is the text of my speech in the debate in the House of Lords on Levelling Up (Second Reading) on Tuesday 17 January 2023. I was the fifth speaker out of 69... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2023 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Watchnight Awaits

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball Breakfast Show with Gary Davies.I always get nervous as the end of the year... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Messiah

  This is the script of this morning’s Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2 with Zoe Ball.In the last week I had one big miss and one big hit.Jools Holland was in... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Who Are We?

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.I was struck in the last few days by the coincidence of two events. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Life and Death

  This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.Recently my daughter gave birth eleven weeks prematurely. Both mum... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Public Service Broadcasting

  This is the text of a speech I delivered in the House of Lords today in a debate “to take note of the future of public service broadcasting in the year of the... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• “Strengthening Everything That Connects Us”

  On 28 October 2022 the German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered a speech that is a model of maturity, honesty and humility whilst offering a clear... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2022 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY