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  • 21 Dec 2012
    The WOW petition: policy makers must listen and learn

    The times in which the powerful and the comfortable could decide what is best for lives about which they have little comprehension are passing. Our family saying for this condition was 'VWTGTC'. It stood for 'vicar's wife taking gruel to cottagers'.

  • 11 Oct 2012
    Families, fortunes and David Cameron

    The government wants “To set our country back on the path to prosperity that all can share in” and “mend a broken society”, claimed UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the Conservative Party conference on 10 October. Despite national policies inflicting deepening misery on the poorest in society, and promises by his ministers of more of the same, he was seeking to portray his leadership as compassionate and inclusive.

  • 11 May 2011
    Disability: if you can't march, you can still lobby

    The difficulties negotiated and the sacrifices made by many disabled and ill people in getting to London to join the Hardest Hit march against government cuts has been inspiring.

  • 11 May 2011
    How, where and why cuts are hitting disabled and ill people

    Today (11 May 2011) Ekklesia is highlighting the contents of a research paper which maps out the contours of the government's revolution in Britain’s benefits and welfare system - one that hits the mo

  • 11 May 2011
    It's wrong to cut disability benefits
  • 11 May 2011
    Resisting the cuts to disability benefits

    The Government plans to cut billions from support for disabled people and their families. Indeed, swingeing reductions, made worse by the 'economies' being imposed on and by local council, have already begun.

  • 11 May 2011
    Disabled and sick march on the capital against 'life threatening' cuts

    Up to 10,000 disabled people are joining the Hardest Hit march in London today, in protest against government cuts to benefits and services.

  • 1 May 2011
    Betraying disabled people and welfare
  • 5 Jun 2008
    Moving religion from harm to healing

    Religion that binds others with condemnation and superstition is far from the heart of the Gospel, says Simon Barrow. The church needs to face its arguments and seek to be a place of healing if it is to rediscover its global role.