I’ve managed to find a bit of time over the last week to trawl the internet looking for interesting tidbits to read. I’ve found a few, but there’s no overarching theme this time round, although looking over them they do… Read More ›
Month: May 2012
It’s going to take more than money to reduce child poverty
It appears that child poverty reports are like buses. You wait a while for one to come out and then two arrive on the same day. Yesterday UNICEF released their wide-ranging Report Card 10 which sets out the latest international comparison data for… Read More ›
Secrecy and corruption cost Africa £3,000 a second
Tearfund’s latest Policy Blog post entitled ‘Anti-corruption campaigning, a simple truth?‘ includes this illustration that they have had commissioned to highlight the steps needed to “unearth the truth” on the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and strengthen transparency laws internationally. It’s being featured… Read More ›
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the benefits of celebrating community
If you take a look at the Old Testament you’ll see that the Jewish calendar was full of festivals each celebrating and aspect of God’s faithfulness to their nation. Probably the ones we’re most familiar with are Passover and Pentecost…. Read More ›
Azerbaijan and Syria: this weekend’s faces of human rights abuse
I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of the Eurovision Song contest, mainly because I struggle to cope with the high level of cheese content, but being a dutiful European I sat through three quarters of it… Read More ›
Blogging – at what point do we overstep the mark?
Following on from yesterday’s post about Christian Concern I’ve had some harsh words spoken to me from a couple of places. On the other hand I’ve also had several more agreeing with me and the point I was trying to… Read More ›
To Christian Concern: Thank you for highlighting injustice but please drop the spin
Yesterday was a busy day for Christian Concern. Lesley Pilkington the Christian psychotherapist who was struck off by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) after she was tricked into providing ‘gay cure’ counselling for a fake client who was secretly an undercover… Read More ›
