by Bernadette Meaden | Jan 6, 2023 | Commentary
AS MANY COUNTRIES MOVE TOWARDS a more enlightened and evidence-based approach to drug policy, with good results, the UK sadly clings to the harmful and unwinnable ‘War On Drugs’. Indeed, the current government shows signs of doubling down and becoming even more...
by Simon Barrow | Dec 25, 2022 | Commentary
WE LIVE IN apocalyptic times. By which I mean we are confronting twin existential threats to the future of the planet from catastrophic global heating and loss of biodiversity, alongside the growing, mass displacement of people by war, poverty and abuse brought about...
by Richard Murphy | Dec 24, 2022 | Commentary
SO JUSTIN WELBY, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been pontificating on Twitter recently. He noted that ”the Magnificat turns the world upside down”. I agree, it does. So trust me, this is all about economics, and why the Church is failing on this key issue. This is...
by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 23, 2022 | Commentary
WITH THREE PRIME MINISTERS, a disastrous budget, a cost of living crisis and a wave of strikes, 2022 has been a year of unprecedented political failure. Understandably, few people now look to elected politicians for hope or inspiration. But in communities across the...
by Nicholas Adams | Dec 15, 2022 | Commentary
THOSE WHO SAY that nurses should not strike have got something right. Two things, actually. First, nurses are skilled workers who embody a fundamental, transformative, and often life-saving care. The idea of such folk striking is deeply dissonant. And second, they...
by Jill Segger | Dec 8, 2022 | Commentary
THE ‘FISCAL EVENT’ OF KWASi KWARTENG AND LIZ TRUSS brought the nation to the edge of a 2008-level financial collapse in September. The blinkered and arrogant insouciance which informed it had long been visible in the sweeping, unevidenced assertions of...
