Beyond the politics of fear – a response to the London bombings

by | Jul 9, 2005

Even as the clearing up, forensic work, medical treatment and mourning continues in the aftermath of the terrible bomb attacks against London on 7 July 2005, policy makers in government and civil society are necessarily required to think about the response to these...

Are immigration controls moral?

by | Apr 28, 2005

[This paper was originally delivered in 2005.] The election coverage of Jack Straw’s difficulties in Blackburn has brought to mind my experiences as a naive young teacher at a difficult secondary modern school in that town. It was an overtly racist institution...

Toward the abolition of the nation state?

by | Jun 6, 2004

In the run-up to elections to the European Parliament, Ekklesia has published a paper that urges churches not to be diverted by the debate about whether God gets a name check in the EU constitution from weightier questions such as what value there is in national...