by Jill Segger | Mar 2, 2022 | Commentary
ETHICS IN PUBLIC LIFE are now more at the centre of our attention than they have ever been, even among people who may not usually spend much time on such matters. Covid-19 brought the long-running background of Prime Ministerial mendacity, crony contracts, personal...
by Jill Segger | Dec 13, 2021 | Commentary
WAITING CAN BE DIFFICULT. In a time of near-instant communications and even quicker opinions, it is a state of being which is under threat. Waiting – in non-emergency situations – is seen as negative, even to some, as a form of insult. To understand it as an essential...
by Jill Segger | Nov 3, 2021 | Commentary
WHEN I FIRST came to work for Ekklesia in 2009, I was anxious to make clear that I am not a policy analyst. Though anyone writing about current affairs must obviously have a grasp of current policies and their possible developments, I felt it necessary to establish...
by Jill Segger | Oct 6, 2021 | Commentary
‘SOLD AS SEEN’. A useful loophole for the vendor if the wheels of the used car you have just bought drop off on the journey home. It should always be a warning that things may not be quite what they seem. However, we are just as likely to fail to look beyond the...
by Jill Segger | Aug 17, 2021 | Commentary
ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1939, LABOUR’S DEPUTY LEADER ARTHUR GREEN got to his feet in the Commons Chamber. He had been called upon to respond to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s ambivalent speech on the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. As he rose, a Conservative...
