Category - alternatives

Politics faces an economic crunch

Simon Barrow — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:32:09 +0100

The main British party conferences were about to sidestep the economy, but the latest bank crunch has made the topic unavoidable, says Simon Barrow. But do politicians or the churches have anything meaningful to say?

Army under fire for recruitment that glamourises war

staff writers — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:10:09 +0000

Representative's of Britain's armed forces are reacting with fury to a report which says that some of their recruitment advertising is giving young people, in particular, a misleading and glamourised picture of military life.

Getting Iraq’s war surge to trickle towards peace

Simon Barrow — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:13:20 +0100

Talk of the efficacy or otherwise of the surge is a smokescreen, says Simon Barrow. There is no long-term military solution to Iraq’s nightmare. But viable alternatives are being sought within civil society.