Ken Davidson

Whether we are a Christian or not, during some part of our life, a season of darkness will come knocking on our life and will seek to engulf us. It is in such seasons of darkness that we need to know how to find God's path, to guide us out of darkness and into the light. For many individuals, a season of darkness could be when your child has been rushed into hospital and your heart is beating with panic and worry. Or perhaps a medical consultant informs you to go home and let your family know that time is no longer on your side. A season of darkness could be a difficult financial time, a bankruptcy or loss of a job, or it could be a time when your child has wandered from God. So many potentially difficult and challenging situations can create a season of darkness in our lives. For Ken Davidson, his season of darkness was when he was faced with several threats to his life, a season of drugs and alcohol, homelessness, several bereavements in his immediate family and much more. Alison Davidson was raised in a Christian home, yet even with this nurturing environment, she rebelled against her family and God. Later, both Ken and Alison dramatically experienced the salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ. When Alison was diagnosed with M. E. at an early age, the debilitating illness came back with a vengeance when Alison and Ken got married, a time when their marriage was already under severe stress and they found themselves and their relationship coming asunder. But God had another plan as He has a plan for you You will find yourself spiritually enabled against your own seasons of darkness as you read, Finding God's Path in a Dark Season.

After 70 years of free universal education, politicians and social commentators, are telling us that we have a mediocre education system in England, (based on unreliable international tests) which is damaging to the nation's international competitiveness and failing to produce well rounded contributing citizens. The book attempts to examine how this nightmare came to pass? Surely, all the billions spent and all the wisdom applied to the problems of education should have added up to more than mediocre? We were promised a meritocratic society and all we have is a few people doing rather well for themselves.

Dave's Cunning Plans tells the tale of the coalition government and their plans to rebuild the broken landscape of Britain. The man with the blueprint is of course our leader, 'Call Me Dave' Cameron. Dave has many plans, in fact, no area of your life will be left untouched by Dave's cunning, Dave has a plan for everything, well, perhaps not everything. Dave doesn't have much in the way of plan for elderly people or children in care, housing, transport or energy. And his plans for buzzards and badgers went south. In fact, Dave's plans are not that cunning either, his plans may be callous and thoughtless like those for welfare reform, or deceitful like his plans for the NHS or slothful like those on lobbying and tax dodging, or dysfunctional like his relationship with Europe, or confused like his 'greenest government ever' campaign, or worse, they may be totally non-existent like his economic plans. Note, this is not a critique of Dave or his Tory colleagues, rather it's a critique of liberal democracy, of the spivs and pin-stripped gangsters with their snouts in the Sambuca trough, of duplicitous politicians of all shades, of time wasters and time servers, of vulture capitalists feasting on the labour of others and primarily this is a critique of the arrogance of opinion spouters who assert "If you don't use your vote, then you've got nothing to say", people who never pause to explain how a cross on a ballot paper empowers anyone. More than anything this is a critique of policy failure across the whole of government, your cross on a ballot paper at the next election will not fix it.

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