Articles
Parliament ‘must not be shut out of trade deals'
13 Oct 2017
The Trade Justice Movement has welcomed the Government’s recognition, in its white paper, that our trade policy should be ‘transparent and inclusive’. However it has criticised its commitments so far as woefully inadequate, in particular the…
Sixteen-year-old singer Rai-Elle Williams has battled through to the next round of the X Factor by singing the gospel classic 'Break every chain'. She was forced into a sing-off to decide who would go through. Three…
Pray for our police
13 Oct 2017
‘For the past ten years I’ve been a police response officer. A colleague, summing up our lives, recently wrote: “Last week I was hit, spat at and punched. There wasn't one day that I ate my…
Northern Ireland: pray for a better debate
13 Oct 2017
There are reports of a change of tone between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin; however, at present the prospect of a Northern Ireland executive and assembly being re-established remains elusive. The secretary of…
Rachel's daughter was raped by a boy at her school. He was arrested, bailed, and put back into lessons, alongside his victim, the following day. ‘A rape victim is already in a terrible place, but to…
Catalonia's drive to separate from Spain is rekindling dreams of independence in ethnic pockets across the Balkans - a dangerous ambition in a region where nationalist violence claimed tens of thousands of lives in the 1990s.…