Last Thursday was a big day for Leicester. The Diamond Jubilee tour started in our city and, more particularly, on the campus of De Montfort University where I am a speech and…
Each of us has distinctive gifts and talents, but every day we are faced with bad news about the world, bad news concerning our local communities, our country or the international…
A bicycle-recycling project run by Hull Quakers is raising funds for a cash-strapped charity for the homeless in that northern town.
Our daughter died at the age of ten following a road traffic accident. She was on a life support machine, which was switched off in a matter of days, not weeks or months or even…
The legal philosopher Neil McCormick said that jurisprudence is peddling in the shallows of philosophy. I am inclined to agree. If a cause is right or wrong, it should be possible…
‘The Great Creator… made the Earth to be a common treasury,’ wrote Gerrard Winstanley in 1649, shortly before his Digger community was evicted from common land. ‘Not one…
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