Assessing Labour’s leadership candidates on practical values

by | Aug 27, 2015

CONTENTS 1. Introduction – page 2 2. Assessment of Labour’s leadership contenders in relation to practical values and principles – pages 3 to 6 3. The larger issues: extending the parameters of the debate: political culture and participation; changing politics and...

Climate change and the Christian gospel

by | Jun 18, 2015

CONTENTS 1. Preface: beyond denial and apathy (Simon Barrow) – p1. 2. An urgent call to action for the churches – p2. 3. Looking at the science – p4. 4. An hour of opportunity? – p5. 5. God–Humanity–Earth – p6. 6. Questions for Christians – p8. 7. Looking at St John’s...

Reforming welfare: moving beyond the austerity mentality

by | May 5, 2015

CONTENTS 1. Introduction: On not putting people first – p2. 2. Transatlantic ideology an an engineered crisis for welfare – p2. 3. Ian Duncan Smith and the developing anti-welfare agenda – p4. 4. The contradictions of ‘welfare reform’ – p5. 5. The corrosive...

Social Security and the ‘shrinking state’

by | May 4, 2015

CONTENTS 1. Introduction: losing a sense of social security – p1. 2. A convergence of interests – p2. 3. Safeguarding the dignity and worth of the human person – p4. 4. Increasing inequality, ‘shrinking the state’ – p6. 5. The vilification of ‘welfare’ – p7. 6....