4th March 2016

Laurence Lerner

by Laurence Lerner and Philip Gross
4th March 2016

The deep pit

by Lydia Vulliamy
4th March 2016

Where is the Spirit?

by Martin Pennock

Never having spent more than a day in a hospital it came as a shock to the system to be wheeled into Critical Care at West Suffolk Hospital and then transferred to Papworth…

26th February 2016

Thought for the Week: Objection sustained

by David Boulton

I am honoured to have been invited to guest-edit this special edition of the Friend, and I thank Ian Kirk-Smith and his hard-working team for helping me put it together. I hear the…

26th February 2016

2 March 1916: D-day for conscientious objectors

by David Boulton
26th February 2016

Archive photographic montage: Conscription and conscience

by The Friend

Above top left: Conscientious objectors put to work in Dartmoor prison (courtesy of The Peace Pledge Union). Above top right: T Edmund Harvey, Quaker Liberal MP who drafted the…

26th February 2016

The politics of conscription and conscience

by David Boulton
26th February 2016

Where are we now?

by Rachel Brett
26th February 2016

Hubert Peet

by Ian Kirk-Smith
26th February 2016

A pacifist in Israel

by Symon Hill
26th February 2016

No-Conscription Fellowship Manifesto

by No-Conscription Fellowship

The case for and against compulsory military and munition service is being argued by many who, for reasons of age or sex, would not be subject to it. The signatories to this…

26th February 2016

See more, hear more, read more

by Ian Kirk-Smith