BRIEFING
Disabled people warn of post-Brexit shortage of care workers and PAs
FOR DECADES, many disabled people in the UK have been supported by Personal Assistants (PAs) and Care Workers from the European Union, the European Economic Area, and countries further afield. This has helped to ease the serious pressures on the adult social care...
Fire and re-hire tactics now widespread, says TUC
THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS (TUC) has warned that the controversial practice of 'fire and re-hire' has become widespread during the Covid-19 pandemic. A new poll published by the union body reveals that nearly one in ten (nine per cent) workers have been told to...
Billionaires ‘bounce back’ from COVID as poverty soars
THE THOUSAND RICHEST PEOPLE on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just nine months, but it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, reveals a new Oxfam report. The Inequality Virus was...
Plans for more women’s prison places criticised
THE HOWARD LEAGUE for Penal Reform has criticised the UK Government after ministers announced plans for 500 new prison places for women in England and Wales. Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns at the Howard League, said: “If the goal is to reduce the number of...
UK Government must review PPE provision, says BMA
THE British Medical Association (BMA) is calling for the wider provision of Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) for healthcare workers in high-risk settings across primary and secondary care. The BMA says there is evidence indicating lower infection rates amongst...
COMMENTARY
TPNW and global action to abolish nuclear weapons
THE WORLD TODAY faces a number of existential or near-existential threats. The climate crisis (which has repercussions in every other area of life, and hits the poorest and most vulnerable hardest) is the most prominent. The current COVID pandemic, the threat of...
Review of ‘Green Burial’, by Martin Hayden
Green Burial by Martin Hayden. Published by The Garlic Press. Price £10. Many years ago I spoke to a veteran activist in the peace movement. When I asked him why he did what he did, he said, “It’s my love song to the world.” This book feels very much like a love song...
Remember Martin Luther King in the struggle for justice and love
TODAY is Martin Luther King Jr Day in the United States and across the world. The annual event, which marks the civil rights leader's birthday on 15 January 1929 (and is observed on the third Monday of January each year), has added poignancy in 2021, with the overt...
Bonhoeffer scholars call for the removal of Donald Trump
WHILE far-right author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas falsely invokes anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (left) to “stop the steal” in the US, genuine Bonhoeffer scholars are calling for the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office. The executive board of the...
Far-right violence in USA: faith, nationalism, love and justice
AS UNITED STATES lawmakers were meeting on 6 January 2021 to ratify the results of the presidential election, far-right supporters of the US president, Donald Trump, stormed the building. He had refused to accept his defeat, urging them in a speech to “walk down to...
MEDIA
UPDATES
Welcome to the new Ekklesia website
EKKLESIA IS PLEASED to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politics. This is the fourth redesign since we appeared on the web in 2002. It also marks a...
New Ekklesia Publishing site goes live
EKKLESIA Publishing was established in 2015 and has so far produced ten titles, with several more in process for 2021. Our aim is to bring to market high quality books which help change the way we look at the world based on the values of social justice, peacemaking,...
New imprint on culture and transformation
CHANGE is not just about politics, but the whole spectrum of human activity and endeavour. That is the inspirational thought behind Siglum, which is a new imprint which focuses on the illuminative and transformative possibilities of the arts, music and culture. Among...
