British Isles
Student loans and debt
20 Oct 2017
Former education secretary Nicky Morgan will lead an inquiry into the rising costs of the student loans system in England and its possible replacement by a graduate tax. The investigation is needed because of the steeply…
Friday Focus: talking about Jesus
13 Oct 2017
It is usually easier to pray for someone than to talk with them, but the Great Commission is not ‘Go into all the world and pray...’ Perhaps now is the time to start a conversation. Ask…
Proposals for new deal with the EU
13 Oct 2017
In a statement to MPs, Theresa May called for a ‘unique and ambitious economic partnership’ with the EU after Brexit. ‘Progress will not always be smooth’, she said, but the UK can ‘prove the doomsayers wrong’.…
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…