In the Friend (25 February) the letters from Dai Jenkins and Gerard Bane stated that the award of a large contract to Lockheed Martin to run the census might lead, under the terms…
John Gillibrand is an Anglican priest and father of Adam, a teenager on the autistic spectrum. Disabled church, disabled society is an ambitious book in which he discusses the…
I have been reading the Friend since I joined the Society at Leigh-on-Sea some thirty-six years ago. I think it was there that I was surprised when one of the older members told me…
David Cameron is striking at the very heart of the public service ethos, starting with the Health and Social Care Bill.
Thinking about going to YMG in Canterbury? Excited? Daunted? Should I go? We all have these questions.
On 30 July, around 1,500 Friends and their families will make their pilgrimage to Canterbury for Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG). We will stay for a week on the campus of the…
Simon Gray’s piece Supporting Both Sides (17 February), in which he urges Friends not to take sides in the question of boycotting goods from Israeli settlements, got me thinking…
In 1988 the first fair trade coffee from Mexico was sold in Dutch supermarkets. It was named after an historical figure from Holland, ‘Max Havelaar’, who had opposed the…
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