On a Saturday morning in January 2007, some Quakers arranged a public meeting to be addressed by Bruce Kent. Parliament was about to debate the renewal of Britain’s nuclear-armed…
The business of business is business – this has been the commercial world’s slogan since the mid-twentieth century, claiming markets are amoral and companies exist only to…
When we go to a talk on Palestine, we are prepared to hear of the stonings, the insults, the injustice, the theft of land, the denial of water, the cutting down of olive trees,…
It all started, for me, with Cathy. Her homelessness in the 1966 BBC television play ‘Cathy Come Home’ fired people of all faiths, and none, into action. Inspirational work,…
‘Ah, Cobden and Bright’ ‘Oh dear, he wasn’t much of a socialist was he… and not very caring about the children working in his own mills?’ There is, of course, truth in…
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