The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has released a summary of the key findings of a significant report: Zero Carbon Britain. CAT has been working on this for some years,…
There are phrases that jump off the page at a particular period in one’s life and make a huge impact. Two such phrases were in some notes I took from the Pendle Hill pamphlet…
In his book Fraudcast News – How bad journalism supports our bogus democracies, Patrick Chalmers, a former Reuters financial reporter, contends that conventional journalists are…
Public trust in British politicians and the institutions they inhabit is in tatters – with more than half the electorate wondering whether to bother turning out to vote. Yet,…
Facing shafts of light without, within a brighter place we begin, to whisper then to shout fractures of the outer core dropping of the daily mask, conversations deep and raw……
What would they know about it? Quite a bit, actually. Scientists have replaced philosophers as gatekeepers of the real and, as a result, philosophers study science and scientists…
I often moan to myself that Friends don’t talk enough, for me, that is, about what we feel God to be – how we experience it/him/her; but I also know I don’t talk about it…
From time to time there is the suggestion in the pages of the Friend that Quaker values are not the same as the values of society as a whole and that we have special messages for…
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