In his 1978 book, The Seventh Enemy, Ronald Higgins outlined six major global threats. The ‘seventh enemy’ was humanity’s inability to tackle them. Twenty-five years…
It was always the cue for making excuses and leaving – the monthly request: ‘Who will be our Area Meeting representatives?’ Eventually, we faced up to this reluctance to…
We sit together in Silence let the quiet sink in settle into ourselves
This Sunday sees the start of the first Living Wage Week. The Living Wage campaign highlights fair pay as an urgent moral and practical necessity to eradicate poverty. It…
In the UK the top one per cent own more property wealth than the other ninety-nine per cent in total. This was just one of the startling facts discussed at a recent gathering at…
On Saturday in central London thousands gathered to protest against present and proposed government cuts. There was a contingent walking behind the banner: ‘Cut Trident, not…
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