by Doug Hynd | Oct 11, 2021 | Commentary
How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger & the Work of Peace by Melissa Florer-Bixler, Herald Press, 2021 (ISBN 978-1-5138-0813-0). At least in the English-speaking world, the Christian churches are undergoing a series of rolling internal conflicts over their...
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 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...
