As of yesterday we will begin to discover whether Iain Duncan Smith’s personal mission to overhaul the benefits system through the Universal Credit will be a success or failure as the first pilot is rolled out in parts of Manchester.  Week on week it’s impossible to get away from benefits-related news, but it’s still an […]

Who would have believed not so long ago that we’d have politicians praising an Archbishop of Canterbury for his analysis of our economy and the failings of the banking sector in the UK?  It goes to show that since Justin Welby’s appointment, things have changed considerably.  Not only do we have an Archbishop with experience […]

I had the privilege yesterday evening of spending an hour in the cold taking part in the launch of the Enough Food for Everyone…IF campaign. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but I expect it will soon end up being called IF.  Anyway, there were a bunch of famous people giving their backing to it with a […]

Press release from Christian Aid: New research has revealed that 56% of British adults believe that tax avoidance by multinational companies (MNCs), while a technically legal way of reducing what they owe the taxman, is morally wrong, and half of people think it should be made illegal. Only four per cent of those polled thought […]

Having been away from a computer for most of last week, I didn’t get a chance to comment on the fuss that erupted over the proposed gay/not-gay/ex-gay/post-gay London bus ads that area and aren’t happening this month. For those not up to speed, on April 3rd Stonewall announced that they are funding 1000 London bus […]

I’ve been paying close attention to the radio, television, papers and Twitter since George Osborne’s budget came out on Wednesday to see what the reaction has been like.  As you would expect there has been plenty written and said about it so far and there seems to be a bit of a competiton going on as […]