Britain is one of the most unequal societies in the world: the top twenty per cent are 7.2 times wealthier than the bottom twenty per cent. The corresponding figure in Japan is…
An overwhelming body of research has shown that many British prisons are close to breaking point. Politicians eager for votes have postured to be tougher on crime, and rapidly…
I love the silence. Silence between two people, Who have no need for endless words, At ease with one another.
Have we really listened to the challenge of our three prize-winning essayists of 2009? The competition received one hundred and six entries, some of them fifty pages long, and I…
Is it just me or do other busy, older, Friends feel ‘got at’ by advices & queries 28? Having heard it read three times in Meetings for Worship in less than a year, I began…
Jobs aren’t easy to find Cuts are on everyone’s mind But the government thinks we are blind ’Cause people in Britain don’t count.
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