by Archive | Mar 19, 2014
On the eve of the 2014 budget, Methodist Church press officer Anna Drew wrote a powerful blog on the struggle by churches and others to get to the truth about poverty in Britain today. On the eve of the 2014 budget, Methodist Church press officer Anna Drew wrote a...
by Archive | Mar 19, 2014
Commenting ahead of Chancellor George Osborne’s announcements this afternoon (19 March 201), Simon Barrow, co-director of the Christian political think-tank Ekklesia, said: “Budgets, we believe, are moral documents. They are not just about abstract...
by Archive | Mar 19, 2014
As usual, Ekklesia will offer running budget comment, analysis and response (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/budget2014) today and tomorrow (19-20 March 2014) – highlighting especially the moral and social issues, alternative economic perspectives, the response of...
by Archive | Mar 17, 2014
There is plenty to be disturbed about over Russia’s internal policies of repression, its external policies of forced intervention and control, and a political and economic system shaped by the gangster capitalism which Western advisers went in to...
by Archive | Mar 15, 2014
When my radio alarm clock woke me yesterday morning, I was unsurprised but deeply saddened to hear of the death of Tony Benn. When my radio alarm clock woke me yesterday morning, I was unsurprised but deeply saddened to hear of the death of Tony Benn. I was 18 when I...
