by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
With the Prime Minister suffering the political equivalent of negative equity in popularity polling, Labour MPs holidaying over the parliamentary recess have been listening for little gnawing noises outside their hotel rooms. This is the sound made by under-occupied...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 12, 2008
Rowan Williams succeeded in clarifying the nub of his thinking and showed contrition for his clumsiness, but he declined to apologise and is not off the hook – this seems the majority verdict among commentators and other public figures today, amid calls for...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 10, 2008
Electronics workers in Mexico are regularly subjected to denial of labour rights and dignity by companies – practices which needed to be challenged and changed, says a new report from the England and Wales Catholic development agency, CAFOD. The report from the...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 1, 2008
Norway’s government has praised the country’s small Roman Catholic Church for its role in supporting more than 100,000 labour migrants from Poland and other eastern European countries – writes Oivind Ostang. “We have become increasingly aware...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 1, 2008
Christmas and New Year may be a time for giving, but in the political world there’s little room for sentiment, and it has been taking that’s featured on the agenda in recent weeks. Given the noted commitment of party fixers to ‘risk management’, you’d have thought...
