NCVO research project on welfare changes

Anjelica Finnegan started work at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) this week and will be leading a new Joseph Rowntree Fund-financed research project to find out about the experiences of voluntary organisations dealing with the...

Briefing: Last minute pressure on government over Lobbying Bill

Stung by the overwhelming criticism of its chaotic and deeply flawed Lobbying Bill, the government is continuing to manoeuvre hard to get it through without major changes at the last minute – but NGOs Stung by the overwhelming criticism of its chaotic and deeply...

UKIP, homophobia and the real sin behind the floods

UKIP councillor David Silvester believes that Britain’s recent floods are the results of sin. You may be surprised to learn that I agree with him. There the agreement ends, for we have very different ideas about what the sin is and how it has affected the weather....

Podcast: Geneva 2 Egypt’s Constitutional Referendum, and more

In the first Middle East Analysis podcast of 2014, regular studio guest Dr Harry Hagopian, a regional expert and Ekklesia associate, looks at the upcoming Geneva 2 meeting about the on-going crisis in Syria, Egypt’s constitutional referendum, and other Middle...

84-year-old dies in handcuffs: xenophobia’s destructive power

Chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick accused staff at Harmondsworth removal centre of “a shocking lack of humanity” after two gravely ill men were kept in handcuffs. For 84-year-old Alois Dvorzac, who had dementia, these were not removed until after...