British Isles
Friday, 30 June 2017 15:08
Government backtracks on pay policy
The Government’s austerity policy descended into chaos on 28 June as it first seemed to suggest it would abandon its one per cent cap on public sector pay rises, then denied it. Three Cabinet ministers appeared…
Friday, 30 June 2017 15:05
Youngest bishop to be new Primus
The Scottish Episcopal Church has elected Rt Rev’d Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness, as Primus. Bishop Mark, 56, the youngest of the bishops, was consecrated in his current diocese in 2007. He said:…
Friday, 30 June 2017 15:03
Ofsted chief and ‘British values’
Amanda Spielman, who in January became head of schools’ regulator Ofsted, has vowed to continue promoting ‘British values’. Citing the recent terror attacks as evidence that a greater crackdown on different forms of extremism is needed,…
Friday, 23 June 2017 11:56
Friday Focus: discipleship
The apostle Paul gives us an interesting insight on discipleship. It does not begin in the will but in the mind where we store our beliefs and values. One area for discipleship is our missionality; how…
Friday, 23 June 2017 11:53
Finsbury Park attack
Right-wing extremists have defended the attack in London on 19 June, in which a man deliberately drove a van into a group of Muslim worshippers after late-night Ramadan prayers, by claiming: ‘This is war: we have…
Friday, 23 June 2017 11:50
Lord Adonis urges support for ‘soft Brexit’
Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Adonis has called on his party to give its 'full support' to Philip Hammond's vision of a 'soft Brexit' instead of the 'ideologically crazed' alternative. He described himself as a 'progressive…