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...
by Bernadette Meaden | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary
SOMETIMES EVENTS COINCIDE in a way that speaks volumes. On 28 July, the UK Government published its National Disability Strategy, complete with a characteristically grandiloquent foreword by the prime minister. Mr Johnson wrote, “if there is one thing more than any...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jul 24, 2021 | Commentary
THE COLLEGE which provides training for civil servants has just introduced a new course. ‘From Backbencher To Minister’ aims to give new ministers the skills to manage a department with hundreds of employees and a budget of billions. Some might think this is long...
by Savitri Hensman | Jul 14, 2021 | Commentary
THE METHODIST CHURCH IN BRITAIN will allow ministers and congregations to celebrate marriage for same-sex couples, if they wish. The Methodist Conference also called for a ban on conversion therapy which attempts to change people’s sexual orientation or gender...
by Bernadette Meaden | Jun 26, 2021 | Commentary
ACCORDING to George Orwell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book everyone should read. It is often named by people on the left as the book which has had the greatest influence on their politics. However, there is no denying that unlike Animal Farm or 1984,...
