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  • 8 Mar 2013
    The human cost of WCA and ESA: more #ESAendgame feedback

    Yesterday Ekklesia published a large selection of online responses to disability research and activist Sue Marsh's call for people to kickstart the 'ESA End Game' campaign to challenge the iniquities around Employment and Support Allowance (http://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/f31.htm).

  • 7 Mar 2013
    Bedroom tax: Is the Government genuinely ignorant?

    This is not the first government to be accused of being out of touch, and no doubt it won’t be the last. When the government is comprised largely of millionaires who have led unusually privileged lives, perhaps it is almost too easy an accusation to make. But when a government seems disconnected from the lived reality of its people to an extent that is quite evidently damaging, then the disconnect must be taken seriously.

  • 7 Mar 2013
    This is what ESA/WCA means for sick and disabled people

    As part of a new campaign to highlight the highly damaging impact of the government's welfare changes, particularly in relation to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), activist Sue Marsh (http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/) launched #ESAendgame, the first of a range of mobilising activities, on Twitter and on her web page yesterday (6 March 2013).

  • 5 Mar 2013
    Why Progressio is backing Live Below the Line

    Live Below the Line launches today, Tuesday 5 March 2013, so if you're not content with signing a petition when it comes to global poverty - how about taking on the challenge of eating for just one pound a day for five days?

  • 5 Mar 2013
    Engaging church crises: how 'traditionalism' betrays a truthful tradition

    Robert Pigott, Religious Affairs correspondent for BBC News, is an affable man who does a good job of compressing, translating and commenting on often complex religion stories to a general audience that increasingly lacks background knowledge and understanding on these issues.

  • 3 Mar 2013
    Lent: choosing which instincts to nourish

    Recently, Fr Vazken Movsesian, priest of the Armenian Orthodox Church in the USA, and wise guide to many followers and bloggers across five continents, reminded us of an instructive (and familiar) story.

  • 3 Mar 2013
    Women are still rising

    When the One Billion Rising campaign (http://onebillionrising.org/) went global on 14 February 2013, I was travelling. I therefore didn't have time to contribute directly to the commentary arising from this important event. But the agency I work for was definitely involved, I'm glad to say.

  • 3 Mar 2013
    Twos and threes - healing Sri Lanka

    Small gatherings can have a vital role if Sri Lanka’s wounds are to be healed and justice achieved, according to Duleep de Chickera.

  • 1 Mar 2013
    Eastleigh, UKIP and the immigration blame-game

    On the day of the Eastleigh by-election, figures were released which showed a marked recent decline in net migration, which obviously delighted the Government. Home Secretary Theresa May boasted about how much she had toughened up the rules, but perhaps in an attempt to forestall one potential criticism, stressed the fact that visas for university students had increased by three percent overall.

  • 27 Feb 2013
    New research reveals how clergy claimed compensation for slave ownership

    There was an item on the Today Programme on Radio 4 this morning about UCL’s project to research the legacies of British Slave Ownership.