New deal needed for sick and disabled people

Commenting on the publication today of the report Welfare that Works: Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Simon Barrow, co-director of the Christian think-thank Ekklesia, said: “We welcome this latest research and report from the Spartacus network, with whom...

Funded PhD studentships in Critical Religion available

Critical Religion at the University of Stirling is among the subject areas offering Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Awards under the Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland schemes in the Arts and Humanities. Critical Religion at the University of...

Getting back to basics in education

It is unusual for politicians to admit that a policy they believed in and helped implement was not just wrong, but actually did harm. It is even more unusual for them to make a very public apology. But this is what the Swedish Green Party did last month, on the policy...