Methods of political engagement – including active nonviolence and direct action – and economic justice have been suggested as the focus for the next Yearly Meeting of Friends…
As World Mental Health Day approaches, charities are warning that people with mental health problems in the UK will lose out as a result of government cuts and prejudice towards…
The government’s cuts agenda has come under attack from British Quakers, who have formally declared their opposition to the scale of the cuts and their impact on the poorest…
The role and ‘right holding’ of Area Meetings has been a concern for some time. The afternoon session of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), on Saturday 1 October, was…
There were 87,120 people in detention on 16 September, of whom 95.1 per cent were male. The number is less than 2,000 places short of the ‘usable operational capacity’ of the…
There has been a mixed reaction from equality campaigners. Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said that a consultation on the subject – delayed from this year – will…
The $2bn alleged banking fraud by a trader at UBS, an investment bank, has exposed ethical failure at both the corporate and the individual level, a member of Quakers and Business…
British Quakers are to have a formal presence at the conferences of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.
Tony Stoller, editor of The Friends Quarterly, is the new chair of trustees for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT). A former radio…
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