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  • 28 Oct 2010
    'Poppy-dissenter' hunting season begins again

    It was with a rather heavy heart that I got my first media call today about the annual "red poppy" dust-up - which usually revolves around attacks from the Daily Mail and its kindred spirits on broadcasters, public figures and politicians who don't wear the British Legion Appeal symbol or who raise questions about what the practice means.

  • 29 Aug 2010
    The voices that will not be drowned: reflections from a Bank Holiday

    “I hear those voices that will not be drowned”. These words from Peter Grimes are pierced through the four metre high sculpture by Maggi Hambling which stands on the beach at Aldeburgh in celebration of the life and work of Benjamin Britten. Read against the Suffolk sky, they go straight to the heart.

  • 22 Jun 2010
    Government urged to focus on conflict resolution not military rhetoric

    David Cameron’s desire to wrap himself in the flag, and to beat a war drum for military force as the “front and centre of our national life”, fails to engage key policy issues on the Afghan conflict and to acknowledge research findings about the public’s desire for more realistic ways of remembering the victims of war, says the Christian political thinktank Ekklesia.

  • 8 Nov 2009
    Give freedom a chance

    Remembrance commemorations focus only on one, contested, idea of freedom. It needs to change to embrace freedom in all its fullness, says Jonathan Bartley

  • 7 Nov 2009
    We won't forget you, Harry Patch

    This is the first November since the death of the “last Tommy”, Harry Patch. But Patch regarded Remembrance Day as "just show business". We can honour his memory by recognising that it's time to change the way that we remember.

  • 7 Nov 2009
    Remembrance day: Goodbye to all that, Guardian leader
  • 2 Nov 2009
    We need a more inclusive Remembrance Day

    A new report ahead of Remembrance Day is recommending a deeper and more meaningful form of remembrance that encompasses both soldiers and civilians on all sides in all wars.

  • 1 Nov 2009
    Rethinking Remembrance Day, BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme
  • 9 Jun 2009
    Prophetic Remembrance

    I've just been reflecting on "prophetic living" whilst working on a project for Ekklesia around Remembrance Day

  • 7 Nov 2008
    The default politics of Remembrance

    This Sunday 9 November, churches up and down the country will make a political statement which will be widely covered across print and broadcast media, says Jonathan Bartley. But it is likely to pass without so much as a murmur of criticism.