by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 7, 2021 | Commentary
WHEN THEY CAME HOME at the end of the First World War, many ex-servicemen faced poverty and unemployment, and their anger led to civil unrest. On Peace Day 1919, Luton Town Hall was burned to the ground. Indeed the Summer of 1919 is now known to some historians as...
by Bernadette Meaden | Sep 25, 2021 | Commentary
THE PRIME MINISTER recently told the UN that we must show we are capable of learning and maturing, and finally taking responsibility for the destruction we have inflicted. He was referring to the planet, but he could have been talking about the task facing his new...
by Bernadette Meaden | Sep 7, 2021 | Commentary
AS SABINE GOODWIN OF THE INDEPENDENT FOOD AID NETWORK recently wrote: “A perfect storm is brewing—the impending overnight cut to Universal Credit, the end of the furlough scheme, and a dramatic increase in energy prices. All these devastating changes are planned for...
by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 10, 2021 | Commentary
WITH THE UK GOVERNMENT’S New Plan for Immigration threatening to criminalise some asylum seekers and even those who try to help them, this book could hardly be more timely. In the UK today, the welcoming of strangers is a highly contentious issue. We might,...
by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary
SOMETIMES EVENTS COINCIDE in a way that speaks volumes. On 28 July, the UK Government published its National Disability Strategy, complete with a characteristically grandiloquent foreword by the prime minister. Mr Johnson wrote, “if there is one thing more than any...
