Angels Unawares: refugees and the political crisis

by | Jan 25, 2018

Our choices about refugees reveal whether or not we truly live by our ideals.  In Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time (TED Books Simon and Schuster 2017), David Our choices about refugees reveal whether or not we truly live by our...

Anglicanism – the road ahead of us

by | Jan 22, 2018

 I am originally from Manchester. I have been an Anglican priest since 1989, having trained for the ministry at St.  I am originally from Manchester. I have been an Anglican priest since 1989, having trained for the ministry at St. Stephen’s House in Oxford,...

Austerity, welfare reform, and deaths

by | Jan 18, 2018

The suggestion that people in the UK have died, and are dying, because of government policies is sometimes dismissed as extreme. The suggestion that people in the UK have died, and are dying, because of government policies is sometimes dismissed as extreme. But in the...

Remembering Sivanandan: social justice activist and thinker

by | Jan 13, 2018

Ambalavaner Sivanandan, an activist, thinker and novelist, died on 3 January 2018, aged 94. Ambalavaner Sivanandan, an activist, thinker and novelist, died on 3 January 2018, aged 94. What he said and wrote on class, race, oppression and resistance influenced many...

Toby Young and rules applied to the many, but not the few

by | Jan 9, 2018

Are the standards to which people are now held inversely proportional to the status and responsibility of the positions to which they are appointed? Are the standards to which people are now held inversely proportional to the status and responsibility of the positions...