by Sean Reilly | Mar 3, 2008
According to my good ‘Christianity with attitude’ colleague Giles Fraser, writing in the Church Times, the Adam Smith Institute has “just exploded a bomb under Fairtrade Fortnight” by asking whether fair trade is really efficacious, or whether...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
William Hague, the Conservative MP for Richmond and current Shadow Foreign Secretary, has made what many regard as a remarkable political transition from an electorally unsuccessful Leader of the Opposition mocked for his baseball-cap diplomacy to a ‘national...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 17, 2008
One of the things about being in a position of privilege over many, many years is not just that you take it for granted, but that it seems perfectly and inviolably “natural”. Indeed having your position at the top table questioned feels like an affront to...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
The turmoil in global financial markets caused by the widespread failure of subprime loans in the US, does leave one wondering what would happen if just a small proportion of the £1.25 trillion (that’s right, trillion) in consumer debt we all owe on cards,...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
Funnily enough, I declined the opportunity to attend the inaugural Temple Festival lecture given by Dr Rowan Williams on 7 February. I figured that I could read his talk online, and that it wouldn’t be that exciting an event. What do I know? By mid-afternoon the...
