by Sean Reilly | Jun 11, 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his allies stand accused of distorting the facts as the parlimentary vote on 42 days detention for terror suspects looms – with church figures joining the critics. The Church of England’s Mission and Public Affairs Unit has...
by Sean Reilly | May 23, 2008
Gordon Brown will meet the Dalai Lama at Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishop of Canterbury, today. The British Prime Minister has been accused of “kow-towing” to China by meeting the exiled Tibetan leader in his capacity as a spiritual leader at...
by Sean Reilly | May 6, 2008
British prime minister Gordon Brown today faces heavy criticism for launching his Business Call to Action on global poverty alongside corporations that have been widely attacked for deepening poverty and undermining human rights. The attack comes from the charity War...
by Sean Reilly | May 1, 2008
Since becoming prime minister, Gordon Brown has fended off accusations of ‘kitchen cabinet’ government with remarkable ease. He has done so mainly by putting some of those who previously sat round the hearth into the real Cabinet and gathering a new galley crew. But...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 28, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called on the government to do more to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from the likely consequences of an economic downturn. His comments, made late last week on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, in other...
