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 Savitri Hensman | Aug 30, 2021 | Commentary
UK PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON plans to go ahead with slashing Universal Credit, on the grounds that people should rely on hard work, not welfare, though many of them are already working. An uplift of £20 is due to end, intensifying poverty. At the same time, 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...
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 Savitri Hensman | Aug 9, 2021 | Commentary
ACCORDING TO STEPHEN COTTRELL, the Archbishop of York, an “expansive vision of what it means to be English as part of the UK” is needed, which will “help us rediscover a national unity,” He addresses some important issues and I agree with him that it is fine to feel...
