Issue 14-05-10
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Poems from a Quaker heartland
It is 6 January, the worst weather conditions of the treacherous weeks since Christmas – I slip and slide along the hundred yards between my house and the main road, unsure whether the school I am to visit will be open or not. With thirty seconds to spare, I approach…
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Patriotism or profit?
The chairman of the arms company BAE Systems has refused to rule out arms sales to countries that threaten the UK. In a heated annual general meeting (AGM) in the Queen Elizabeth Centre in London, chairman Dick Olver insisted that he was ‘passionate’ about British industry. He defended himself from… -
Failure is not an option
The dispute between Iran and the United States reignited last week in New York at the opening of a United Nations conference to review progress on disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the opportunity to deflect attention from its nuclear programme and attack the United…
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An injustice system
It was the epitome of a good Quaker event. There was an openness and a listening and learning from others who are usually separated by the society around us. It was a chance to start the radical changes so desperately needed in our sadly ineffective justice system. The occasion was…
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A look at prison sentencing
In recent months there has been a tremendous amount of material in the media about some very serious crimes but also a lot of focus on the way criminals are perceived to be given lenient sentences only to be released five minutes later to commit even more serious offences. -
Love your enemies
I find that election campaigns don’t bring out the Quaker in me. Instead they tend to make me sceptical, uncharitable, and grumpy. In theory I believe in democracy, but in practice I don’t find much to admire in the way our representatives run our country or work together to solve… -
Letters – 14 May 2010
Send letters to: Letters to the editor, the Friend, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Email: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Please include your full postal address and telephone number and a reference (issue, title) to articles. Please indicate whether you prefer your address, email or Meeting or other detail to be published… -
Charles Morgan
The name of Charles Morgan (1894-1958) is little known today, but in Hemlock and After (a 1952 novel by Angus Wilson), he is spoken of in the same breath as TS Eliot, JB Priestley and Somerset Maugham. As a novelist, playwright, essayist and critic he was a major force in… -
Trust: lost and re-found
Trust: How we lost it and how to get it back by Anthony Seldon. Biteback Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-84954-001-8. £8.99. Only in 2002 did I realise that a breakdown in trust was not just a personal worry when Onora O’Neill gave her BBC Reith Lecture ‘A Question of Trust’. After listing… -
Mornington Crescent ministry
I have heard it said that better Meetings for Worship are ones where one ministry follows on from another. On occasion, such a link is clear to the rest of the Meeting but not always. When it is, the assumption is that the ministry develops a topic raised in an… -
Q-Eye – 14 May 2010
The beauty of simplicity A silver medal garden at this year’s Malvern Spring Gardening Show proved that Quaker outreach can be created by beautiful colour, elegant form and subtle fragrance! The ‘Quaker Meeting Place Garden’ was designed by Matthew Jackman and attracted a lot of favourable attention among the 90,000…
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