A former England footballer will next week attempt to help business owners and leaders become ‘better allies to women and people from under-represented groups’.
Graeme Le Saux, who played for Blackburn, Chelsea and Southampton during an illustrious top-flight career, will talk to members of the British and European business communities on Tuesday (16 March) about 'inclusive, healthy masculinity' and 'heart-based leadership'.

Speaking at the virtual Better Man Conference, which has been established in the US for several years, Le Saux will talk about the reasons many men are not comfortable or confident in terms of the vocabulary they should use in today's workplace – and how they must contribute meaningfully to inclusion.

‘The gender dynamics have changed radically in the past decade, both in the US and the UK,’ commented organiser Ray Arata. ‘And many men are not comfortable or confident navigating this new world.

‘Division, uncertainty, and rapid changes in the conversation...

Respected evangelist J. John pays tribute to the life, works and faithfulness of Luis Palau, who has recently died.
 

The passing of the evangelist Luis Palau, aged 86, has recently been announced – and with his ‘promotion to glory’, another of a generation of pioneering preachers has left us.

I had the privilege of knowing Luis and have always had the profoundest respect and affection for him both as an individual and as a powerful proclaimer of the good news of Jesus.

The outline of Luis’ life can be simply told.

He was born in Argentina in 1934 and came to faith through the work of a missionary at the age of 12 – and, from that moment , he felt compelled to share Jesus with others.

Encouraged and supported by Billy Graham, he developed a ministry as an evangelist and, by the 1970s, began to have a distinctive global impact. In the decades that followed, he crisscrossed the world holding evangelistic events in 70 countries and preaching to literally countless num...

A little over 48 hours after Pier Morgan walked out on ITV’s flagship morning programme, the calculators have been hard at work estimating how much he is able to earn from social media.
Although former newspaper editor, Morgan, doesn't need the filthy lucre, he could certainly cash-in big time if he chooses to devote some of his working hours to milking digital platforms such as Instagram.

That’s the view of OnBuy.com, which has sought to find out Morgan’s market value using the Influencer Marketing Hub calculator created by the social media giant.
Among the top-earners
At the moment, Holly Willoughby commands a mouth-watering £18,106 for every sponsored post she publishes on her Instagram account. That’s almost the average annual salary of a working British man.

Ant & Dec, Stacey Solomon and Sorted columnist, and all-round top bloke, Bear Grylls, occupy the next three positions.

Should Piers decide he needs a few more grand in the bank, now his Good Morning Britain day...

It is great to debate the best-ever movies – and dissect all things Hollywood in a bid to decide which decade has been the best for cinemagoers.
So far, I have taken a peek at the 70s and 80s. Now it’s the turn of the 90s – an era that wasn’t really the greatest as far as I was concerned, with the exception of one of two outstanding offerings.

Forest Gump was certainly my personal favourite, and I was amazed it did not come out on top by quite a distance.

Titanic, the film that catapulted Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to the attention of the world, is of course in the mix. But beyond that, I don't see a great deal to shout about.

Compared to the two decades that preceded it, the 90s comes in as a bronze medal winner for me – and, to be honest, that is pushing it.

Here are the highest-grossing movies of that 10-year period, with a popular Steven Speilberg franchise claiming third and eighth positions.

The biggest films of the 1990s...

Titanic – $1.8 billion
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It’s not only the biggest secular events that are feeling the pinch due to the pandemic – as the UK's biggest Christian festivals have today revealed they are also locked in a fight for survival.
In an Open Letter, the leaders of eight annual faith-based events, including Spring Harvest and New Wine, have chosen to highlight the importance of supporting all Christian gatherings for the foreseeable future.

‘We are sensitive to the pain we are all going through in the pandemic,’ says Phil Loose, CEO of the charity that runs Spring Harvest.

‘But in looking forward, Christian events and festivals in the UK have both a legacy that has impacted millions of people around the country, but also a place to gather the church together again. They create a space where we leave our day-to-day routine and where God can impact us radically.

‘Through this letter, Christian event leaders are standing in unity, because we share the same Kingdom goals, to see Jesus glorified and people find fait...

Please be sure of one thing: this article is not a sycophantic, mushy love-in for the former GMB presenter, Piers Morgan.
But while the missiles and grenades – and the occasional tribute – are lobbed in his direction following his abrupt departure from ITV’s flagship morning show yesterday, I thought it only right to try and sum up Morgan’s contribution to the great British psyche.

The truth is, no matter what we think of the man, we have to recognise Piers Morgan is a first-class journalist, editor and broadcaster.

The life-long Arsenal fan treads were others fear to go, and he asks the questions most interviewers break out into a cold sweat just thinking about asking!

You see, 55-year-old Morgan is a throwback to the days when nothing was off-limits as far as questioning is concerned. He is from the stock as the likes of the brilliant Andrew Neil, albeit unlike the Scot, there are still a few rough edges to be honed in Morgan’s case.

Like Neil, Morgan believes passionate...

With more wintry weather scheduled for the weekend, the need to feel snug and warm indoors will again dominate the conversations of many families – with more than 60 per cent of us arguing over how hot the central heating needs to be.
Come rain or shine, Brits like nothing more than to talk about the weather, and the differences between genders always seems to surface when it comes to a conversation about the thermostat.

According to a survey of almost 3,000 respondents and published today by HeatingForce.co.uk, 62 per cent of couples argue over heating – with spats occurring at least six times over the winter period.

Six out of ten men are usually responsible for starting a row – and 48 per cent of the heated exchanges revolving around the costs.
Alive and kicking
Researchers also discovered the Midlands is the hardiest region of the UK, with people living Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby the least likely to turn their thermostats up in the event of a cold snap.

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As a former nurse, Pastor Steve Derbyshire didn't need to think twice when he agreed to use his giant church in London's east end to support the capital’s Covid vaccination rollout.
The building – City Gates – is at the centre of Ilford's multi-cultural society on the outskirts of east London. It is a place where members of various faith groups are more than comfortable mixing with one another.

‘When I was approached by the NHS, I was more than happy to respond positively,’ said Steve, who was part of the team giving out jabs. ‘It was great to be involved and the whole thing was such a success we will be repeating it in a couple of weeks time.

‘There's been a huge amount of discussion about the rights and wrongs of the vaccine programme but we are there for everybody, whatever their views.

‘I saw it as the right thing to do and for those who didn't want to be involved it's their decision and it's to be respected. There were people who requested prayer before receiving their j...

Tom Hanks may well be Hollywood's finest, with the world at his feet – but his son, Chet, may have far more going for him than even his famous Dad!
As an avowed atheist during his teenage years, Chet's world was turned upside down when he was profoundly impacted by the ‘hand of God’ just three years ago when he was 17.

Speaking on the Impulsive podcast, Hanks junior (pictured, above, with his actor father) described how he spent 12 weeks at a remote camp in Utah. At the time, he was angry and confused. Then, as he hiked into the wilderness one day, Hanks said he encountered God and was profoundly impacted.

‘I went off and sat on the edge of this cliff and was just looking out at the view,’ he explained. ‘As I was looking out at that view and I was looking at where I had been from an elevated perspective, because I'd been stuck in this desert for 12 weeks and it just looked ugly and boring, and there's nothing to look at. But now I'm looking at it from an elevated perspective of ...

Make no mistake: Dean Koontz is a great author.
Top of the tree for many years, this fella has written four series of novels, more than 80 standalone books and 74 works of short fiction, blending elements of suspense and horror into his tales as well as large doses of spirituality.

Believe me when I say Koontz is a gem of a writer.

Yet despite masses of publicity of late claiming the opposite, he is not a prophet who predicted the current Covid-19 outbreak.

His book The Eyes of Darkness is flying off the shelves right now, with some believing Covid is foreshadowed in its chapters because a deadly virus Koontz called ‘Wuhan 400’ is mentioned.
Biological weapon
First published in 1981, the book describes the disease as ‘man-made microorganisms’ that only afflict human beings. It also goes on to tell how a Chinese scientist came to the US with a disk that contained a blueprint for China's most important and dangerous new biological weapon’.

Conspiracy theorists will love Ko...