In this issue
In this issue
- Remembrance – Where do we go next?
- My Name is Legion:The British Legion and the control of Remembrance by Ron Tweedy
- Cameron urged to promote safe refugee routes at Valetta summit
- Faith organisations’ crucial role in Colombia peace process
- Wilful ignorance and staggering hypocrisy – David Cameron objects to cuts.
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December 8, 2015
You are invited to join us at the launch of Savitri Hensman’s important new book, “Sexuality, struggle and saintliness: same-sex love and the church”.
Wednesday 11 November 2015
11 Nov 2015
Remembrance – Where do we go next?
This paper, from Simon Barrow, looks at media coverage and developments around Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day in 2015, noting some new trends and issues.
11 Nov 2015
My Name is Legion: The British Legion and the control of Remembrance
In this paper Ron Tweedy explores how the Royal British Legion’s status as the self-appointed “national custodian of Remembrance” has been compromised through its collaboration with some of the world’s most controversial arms dealers, its increasingly militarised presentation of Remembrance, and its commercialised and trivialising corporatisation of the poppy “brand”.
11 Nov 2015
Cameron urged to promote safe refugee routes at Valetta summit
David Cameron must use a key meeting of EU and African leaders in Malta today (11 November) to urge international cooperation on establishing safe and legal routes for refugees and to commit the UK to taking its fair share of those already in Europe, says Amnesty International.
11 Nov 2015
Faith organisations’ crucial role in Colombia peace process
Representatives of more than 150 faith-based organisations gathered in Bogota, Colombia on 5 November to discuss their role in the peace process in that country. The meeting was organised by the Ministry of Interior and drew participation from the World Council of Churches
10 Nov 2015
Wilful ignorance and staggering hypocrisy – David Cameron objects to cuts.
Yesterday’s Daily Mirror ran an interesting article about a very public about a very public argument between the Prime Minister David Cameron and the Leader of Oxfordshire County Council, Ian Hudspeth. The row was significant because Mr Cameron, an Oxfordshire MP, had written in the local paper complaining about the Council’s cuts to frontline services.