Next Thursday, 15 May, is International Conscientious Objectors Day, which this year has special significance as the nationwide centennial commemorations of the first world war get…
Marriage is a useful and easily recognised concept carrying many privileges of practical use. But as Friends our first aims are to face reality and avoid hypocrisy. It is time our…
First, the bad news. Over the last three months our electricity usage has almost trebled. Now, the good news. Our spending on fuel has fallen from about £140 a month to almost…
Dad hated those processions: strangulated distant bugles, rifles butting Whitehall tarmac, doleful incantations from the comfortable clergy resurrecting Albert, Chalky and those…
In 2003 I spent over a year and a half making a film, for BBC Northern Ireland, about a working class Loyalist estate in west Belfast – Springmartin – half way up a mountain…
In April 2011 when Meeting for Sufferings endorsed a boycott of goods from the Israeli districts in the disputed territories, I was horrified at such a misguided and illiberal…
As thousands suffer and die every day and new life is born, often with scant hope of survival, it is each life and each death that is of inestimable value. An Easter letter has…
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