by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 29, 2024 | Commentary
IN almost everything I have written for Ekklesia for more than a decade, there has been one underlying theme – austerity. Whether it is poverty, hunger, the housing crisis, the state of the NHS or our prisons, roads and schools, the fundamental cause of all the...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jun 17, 2024 | Commentary
IN 2021, Pope Francis addressed a Meeting of Popular Movements – activists from some of the most marginalised communities around the world, united by their struggle for justice and dignity. Beginning, “Dear Social Poets”, Pope Francis said: “This is what I like to...
by Bernadette Meaden | Apr 8, 2024 | Commentary
EVERY CHILD born in the UK, whatever their circumstances, is a member of our society. Society has a choice – we can do our best to support and nurture those children, to help them grow into healthy, happy adults, or we can turn our backs on them, allow them to...
by Bernadette Meaden | Mar 4, 2024 | Commentary
WHY has the election of a single MP in a northern town got the political and media establishment so rattled – and why now? George Galloway has been elected as an MP several times in the past, and his election then did not elicit such a reaction. His character and...
by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 8, 2023 | Commentary
The rhetoric from the Conservative party around asylum seekers, immigration, and British Values is becoming increasingly sinister and alarming. Performative patriotism is being used as a distraction from life-threatening and life-shortening poverty and inequality....
