British Isles
Middle East campaign launched
28 Oct 2016
Dozens of MPs attended a Hope for the Middle East event, hosted by Kate Green MP. They heard talks by Baroness Anelay, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a Syrian Christian, and Open…
Brexit battle
28 Oct 2016
Last week Labour lobbied 170 questions for the Government, all designed to throw stumbling blocks into the path of negotiations to get Britain out of the EU. As a nation we can come through this and…
Police corruption
28 Oct 2016
On 7 October the Scotland Yard unit dealing with sensitive police inquiries was found to be ‘corrupted’ by a firm of private investigators run by retired detectives who targeted former police colleagues to secure information about…
Justin Welby is urging the UK’s financial watchdogs to ‘practise what they preach’ amid concern that regulation aimed at preventing another financial crisis is weakening. The Archbishop, who sits on the advisory board of the think-tank…
Refugee children and UK response
28 Oct 2016
The Calais clean-up mission is accomplished. In May the Home Office confirmed that 3,000 child asylum seekers had been returned to conflict-torn countries in the past decade: today many single-minded children are back, trying for a…
‘The equality law needs to change'
28 Oct 2016
Ashers Baking Company was asked to make a cake saying 'support gay marriage' but declined, saying it would compromise their Christian beliefs. LGBT activists launched a civil action against Ashers. Throughout legal proceedings Ashers repeatedly said…