Body politic: Friends should be careful how they campaign, says Clive Ashwin

‘This understanding of political campaigning points to a mistaken presumption.’

'Folk with the same religious beliefs often come to quite different political decisions.'

The first thing I remember being told about Quakerism, more than sixty years ago now, was when an elderly Quaker advised me that Quakerism was not about politics.

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