On 15 January 2021, Ekklesia is pleased to be launching its new website for a new year – our twentieth in operation as a pioneering think-tank (and now change network) on beliefs, ethics and politi
Commentary
Regular comment and analysis from some of our staff and associates.
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January 14, 2021
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January 10, 2021
As US lawmakers were meeting on 6 January 2021 to ratify the results of the presidential election, far-right supporters of the US president, Donald Trump, stormed the building.
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January 6, 2021
Almost every child under 11 in the UK has been born under a Conservative government.
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December 30, 2020
Surveys of public attitudes consistently show that, when asked, people tend to be more positive about their own lives, friends, families and communities than they are about the country or the wider
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December 24, 2020
First, warmest Christmas and Season’s greetings to all our friends, associates and readers.
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December 18, 2020
I never imagined Liz Truss would make me think of Tolstoy, but it’s been that kind of year.
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December 16, 2020
There were two shelves of Everyman Library classics in my childhood home. These had largely been acquired second hand and I remember them as being in varying conditions of well-thumbed tattiness.
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December 4, 2020
The government recently increased the UK’s defence budget substantially, citing the duty of a government to protect its people.
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November 30, 2020
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November 19, 2020
In recent days devolution has once again become a contentious issue, as Brexiteer politicians in London, without any apparent sense of irony, proclaimed the benefits of being part of a politi
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November 5, 2020
As we approach Remembrance Sunday, the usual arguments over poppy colour have been a little less strident as memorial celebrations are subject to lockdown this year.
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October 22, 2020
The capacity of our society to create confusion, distraction and obfuscation around the issue of poverty and economic injustice seems almost unlimited.
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October 14, 2020
On top of its countless other failings, one of the features of our current government is an absence of fresh or original thinking.
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October 7, 2020
Student accommodation is a lucrative business.
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October 1, 2020
It can sometimes be advantageous to arrive late. I did not pay much attention to the film Goodbye Christopher Robin when it first appeared in 2017.
