As we reach the final stages of the Lobbying Bill in parliament, the UK Government has started to respond to the overwhelming opposition from charities, NGOs and advocacy organisations. The pressure is working. As we reach the final stages of the Lobbying Bill in...
Much attention has been focused on the Transparency in Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning, and Trade Union Administration Bill in recent weeks – notably, its failure to tackle the real problem of ‘big money’ corporate lobbying, together with its attack on the...
Commenting on the amendments that the government has announced it will make to the today (9 January 2014), Simon Barrow, co-director of the religion and society think-tank Ekklesia, said: “It is good to see the government beginning to respond to overwhelming...
The Mennonite Trust and the Anabaptist Network, partners of Ekklesia in the Anabaptist Network of Organisations, are holding a day workshop on Saturday 18 January 2014 on the theme of ‘multi-voiced church’. The Mennonite Trust and the Anabaptist Network,...
Prior to Channel Four’s ‘Benefits Street’ being aired last night (6 January 2014), the tabloid press had primed its readers, with plenty of articles such as this one from the Daily Express, laden with Iain Duncan Smith-style rhetoric: ‘broken Britain, scroungers,...
