by Graham Adams | Sep 27, 2022 | Commentary
A FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE once helpfully asked me, “What is your organising principle?” In other words, what is the key idea which, when you pause to become conscious about it, is driving your overall story and commitments? The answer for me is ‘Holy...
by Cameron Boyle | Sep 24, 2022 | Commentary
FEW ISSUES are as charged with opinion as migration. It is a subject that divides and unites, fostering solidarity and discord in equal measure. But, in recent years, the language of migration has been subject to as much scrutiny as the issue itself. At the forefront...
by Bernadette Meaden | Sep 24, 2022 | Commentary
ONLY THE STATE, and states working together, can make the decisions needed to combat climate change. Only the state has the power to significantly redistribute wealth and enforce the rights needed to tackle inequality and injustice. But at a time when the biggest...
by Simon Barrow | Sep 15, 2022 | Commentary
THE ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY of the World Council of Churches (WCC) ended in Karlsruhe, Germany, last week, following eight days of formal deliberating, praying and deciding, plus a raft of pre-meetings and much informal discussion. The WCC’s gathering was one of three...
by Doug Hynd | Sep 11, 2022 | Commentary
THERE HAS BEEN a good deal of concern over the past decade about the vulnerability of democracies to populist and authoritarian movements. Both the US and the UK come to mind here. The results of the Australian federal election earlier this year offers a different...
by Savitri Hensman | Aug 21, 2022 | Commentary
SALMAN RUSHDIE, an Indian-born British author who has won numerous literary awards, was stabbed several times and severely injured at an event in New York on 12 August. In a world where writers and publishers have often faced threats or worse, this has thrown a...
