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  • March 21, 2019
    Meticulous and reticent lives 2.0

    Good poetry stays in the mind. It takes root, develops and insists on keeping company with the reader.

  • October 24, 2014
    Faith in politics but less faith in politicians, say young Christians

    Young Christians asked about their attitudes to voting and politics by the Joint Public Issues Team were clear they did not have faith in politicians to deliver positive change.

  • November 27, 2013
    A new political discourse: difference without mendacity and incivility?

    During last week's Prime Minister's Questions, Michael Meacher, MP for Oldham West and Royton, asked the Prime Minister an entirely reasonable (and, it has to be said, foreseeable) question about inadequate levels of business investment. The reply was a disgrace.

  • March 10, 2013
    #TruthfromPoliticians: time to demand better

    Not long ago, a solicitor who has recently started attending Quaker Meetings for Worship told me that over a lifetime of practice, he had on many occasions been impressed by Friends who would put themselves at a legal and financial disadvantage by strict adherence to the truth. Although this is by no means a virtue confined to Quakers, its absence is perhaps more common than its presence and has in recent weeks, come into sharp political focus.

  • April 4, 2012
    Fuel and pasties: a nadir of governance and our part in it

    Image manipulation, trivia and opportunist deceit have brought our politics low, says Jill Segger. She suggests we all need to examine our attitudes and loyalties if the decline is to be arrested.

  • August 5, 2011
    Real change takes decades

    Real political change does not follow one, or even three, crises. It takes decades, says Jonathan Bartley, surveying the scene this summer. In certain respects things aren’t all that different from sixty years ago. But grassroots pressure still makes a difference.

  • April 25, 2011
    Comedy club broadcast says state of politics is 'no joke'

    A Green Party local election broadcast to be shown on BBC and ITV is set in a comedy club in Little Venice - but its contents are no joke, say the producers.

  • March 31, 2011
    Why is STV so evasive about 'Scotland Debates'?

    The arrogance of large media companies in the face of calls for fairness and accountability besmirches the reputation of good journalism - and I say that as someone who has been in the business on-and-off (mostly 'on'!) for nearly 30 years.

  • September 3, 2010
    Labour's loves not quite lost

    Voters are weary of spin, contemptuous of the moral deformities of "being on-message" and disillusioned with the journey from managerial "what works" politics to the messianic certainties, says Jill Segger. A different compass is needed in Labour's leadership election and elsewhere in British politics.

  • August 29, 2010
    Churches and politics: electing to be different?

    Neither fundamentalism nor functionalism offer a way forward for the churches today in terms of their public witness and political engagement, says Simon Barrow. The different stances taken by church bodies in the 2010 general election suggest important lessons for the future.