While I have sympathy with the sincerity of the Plane Stupid demonstrators at Heathrow last July, who have now been given suspended sentences, I also have misgivings. The blockade…
We are in the visiting room at Florida State Prison. Mike Lambrix, condemned to death, on one side, holding court behind glass and speaking through a small disc with slots. On the…
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…
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…
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…
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