by Bernadette Meaden | Dec 15, 2021 | Commentary
GIVEN the Prime Minister we have, and the events of the last decade, it’s completely understandable that trust in politicians is at an all-time low. The UK’s current leadership has given us very little reason to trust, or even to believe them. And it has been...
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 Bernadette Meaden | Dec 2, 2021 | Commentary
CONSERVATIVES LIKE TO PRETEND that poverty is complicated. They insist that it’s not just a question of low wages and inadequate social security, but more an issue of personal responsibility. Indeed, as he embarked on his damaging welfare ‘reforms’ in 2012, Iain...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 26, 2021 | Commentary
FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE the message of the nativity, Christmas can never be cancelled, nor indeed saved, by a politician. But perhaps our celebration of it really does need to change. For many people, it has become a stressful season of pressure to spend money they...
by Bernadette Meaden | Nov 7, 2021 | Commentary
WHEN THEY CAME HOME at the end of the First World War, many ex-servicemen faced poverty and unemployment, and their anger led to civil unrest. On Peace Day 1919, Luton Town Hall was burned to the ground. Indeed the Summer of 1919 is now known to some historians as...
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...
