New Year’s update 2017: Looking back and looking forward

by | Jan 1, 2017

Greetings and very best wishes to all Ekklesia’s friends, associates and collaborators for 2017. Greetings and very best wishes to all Ekklesia’s friends, associates and collaborators for 2017. With huge challenges lying ahead in Britain and beyond, we...

Reclaim the State in 2017

by | Jan 1, 2017

“David Cameron has been in Leeds preaching to businessmen the virtues of what he calls ‘the smart state’. “David Cameron has been in Leeds preaching to businessmen the virtues of what he calls ‘the smart state’. This seems to be a state that gets away with doing as...

Our choice at Christmas

by | Dec 24, 2016

The world of contemporary art is, to be honest, not one I usually take an interest in, but something happened this year which caught my attention. The world of contemporary art is, to be honest, not one I usually take an interest in, but something happened this year...

Hope, myth and a small god

by | Dec 23, 2016

Early this month, I heard one woman say to another at a supermarket checkout “It doesn’t feel Christmassy yet”. Early this month, I heard one woman say to another at a supermarket checkout “It doesn’t feel Christmassy yet”. I resisted the temptation to say...