by Sean Reilly | Jun 25, 2008
Backed by Catholic aid agency CAFOD, two indigenous indians from Brazil have arrived in London this week to make an urgent plea to members of parliament for help to save their Amazon forest home. Jacir José de Souza and Pierlângela Nascimento da Cunha, who are from...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called on the government to support the new report from Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights which calls for children to be given the right to withdraw from worship in schools. The report says that any child of...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 16, 2008
Should anything be able to thwart the will of the people expressed through freely chosen and accountable representative institutions? This has long been one of the limit testing questions for modern political theorists. Answer ‘no’ and you invite the nightmare of a...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 1, 2008
Leading British Methodist Ruby Beech’s “day job” is a position that dates back to at least the 15th century. As an assistant sergeant at arms in the UK Parliament, she helps look after the security and administration of the House of Commons. When...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
William Hague, the Conservative MP for Richmond and current Shadow Foreign Secretary, has made what many regard as a remarkable political transition from an electorally unsuccessful Leader of the Opposition mocked for his baseball-cap diplomacy to a ‘national...
