by Archive | Jan 28, 2015
This is the third report of the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic Engagement (CCSDE), comprising the first evidence of the limiting impact of the Lobbying Act 2015 on charities and campaign groups. It draws evidence from 50 charities, faith and advocacy...
by Archive | Jan 18, 2015
The Rev Paul Nicolson, a leading figure in the advocacy group Taxpayers Against Poverty (TAP), has written to Lord Heseltine, a key coalition government ally and author of a 2012 report on devolving economic power to the regions, about his criticism of recent...
by Archive | Jan 15, 2015
Debate around the implications of greater political pluralism for representation on, structure of, and content for the proposed General Election television debates in April 2015 continues apace. Ekklesia wrote to the BBC back in October 2014 setting out the case for...
by Archive | Dec 25, 2014
This paper recapitulates some of the key points from Ekklesia’s Re-imagining Remembrance report (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/research/reimagining_remembrance), locating them within the changes that have taken place since that was originally published in 2009,...
by Archive | Dec 20, 2014
n various denominations, debates on sexual ethics and treatment of minorities have sparked heated international controversy. This is sometimes seen as a conflict between a ‘liberal’ west and ‘conservative’ south. But the reality is more complicated. Both acceptance...
