The ‘Queen’s Speech’ is a marriage of twenty – first century machine politics and medieval pageantry. It is read by the monarch but she has no say over its content. The…
Here’s water, as the human eye can’t see it. Maybe God’s eye, or a fly’s, the mirror-ball of…
On the odd occasion that I miss my weekly Quaker Meeting, I get edgy around day eight. My family spots it before I do, but three days on we have all noticed. My emotions are…
Are some Quakers today less committed to the Peace Testimony? A Friend suggested, in an article in the Friend (‘Peace 350’, 12 August 2011), that they are. I am dismayed.…
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