IN a new publication from UCL Policy Lab and Hertford College, Oxford, leading figures from British diplomacy and international development, including the former Cabinet Secretary Lord Mark Sedwill, ...

A NEW Institute for Government paper says the next government must extend the English devolution map to at least 85 per cent of the population to tackle the economic underperformance of England’s ...

NORMAN NICHOLSON lived all his life with ‘Sea to the West’. The Times obituary described him as “The most gifted English Christian poet of his century”. Others, as a ‘provincial poet’. Both views are ...

A NEW report by Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and Demilitarise Education (dED) reveals that privatisation, the academic funding crisis, and commercialisation of universities has led to growing ...

WE ARE grateful to our friends at Christians for Palestine for producing a moving set of meditations and prayers for Gaza, using the traditional form of the Stations of the Cross, which depict Jesus’s ...

THE HUMAN ONE: Paintings that explore the Life, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, the Christ is an exhibition of the work of Jeremy Thomas, artist in residence at St. Mary’s Priory in Abergavenny. I ...

LAMENT BY CHRISTIANS in response to the emerging reality of post-Christendom in Australia has extended along a spectrum from doom laden invocations of the imminent arrival of the four horsemen of the ...

THERE are too many ‘complicating factors’ for Assisted Dying/Assisted Suicide (AD/AS) to be implemented safely, finds a new poll of the British public. The poll’s findings show that behind the ...

CHILDREN in England with a parent in prison will have access to more support with the launch of a new, dedicated resource pack for English schools and educational settings. The new toolkit created by ...

FOR the first time, analysis has revealed a detailed picture of social segregation in England’s schools at a local level. It shows a pattern of some schools accepting fewer students from low-income ...

THE District Court of Amsterdam has found the greenwashing in advertising for KLM [Royal Dutch Airlines] to be illegal. This sets a major legal precedent with ramifications across the international ...

Isaiah 9.2-7; Psalm 96; Luke 2. 1-14 “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light” (Isaiah 9. 2a)… “ And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth” (Luke 2.7) ...