<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Jubilee Centre - Feed]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org</link><description><![CDATA[The Jubilee Centre is a Christian social reform organisation, founded in 1983.]]></description><language>en-gb</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:20:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Conditioned to Obey]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/280/conditioned_to_obey</link><description><![CDATA[&#039;How will I tell my husband and my children what I&#039;ve done?&#039; (tearful Game of Death contestant) In a critique of reality TV shows, a French TV documentary has replicated the 1960s experiment conducted by social psychologist Stanley Milgram at Yale University, in which ordinary people reveal a disturbing capacity to become torturers or even executioners. ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:20:29 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=4">Worldviews &amp; Culture</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Academies, New Opportunities: An Assessment of Conservative Party Education Policy]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/new_academies_new_opportunities_an_assessment_of_conservative_party_education_policy</link><description><![CDATA[This report responds to the Conservative Party&#039;s draft education policy. It begins by summarising the most important points of the policy and offers an overview of some of the major Christian principles of education. It then looks at the policy implications and how parent...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:35:27 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Academies, New Opportunities]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/news/216/new_academies_new_opportunities</link><description><![CDATA[Many parents, teachers, churches and other groups might be interested in the opportunities posed by the Conservatives&#039; education proposals, which include a commitment to 220,000 extra school places in the form of New Academies, but the policy could result in less choice for parents as new schools may enjoy fewer freedoms than existing ones. ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:59:19 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=216">News 2010</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethics of Executive Pay]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/279/ethics_of_executive_pay</link><description><![CDATA[A group of 37 British and Irish Church denominations and organisations whose members manage investments worth £12bn, an amount comparable with one of the UK's 10 largest pension schemes, today proposes that the ratio between the pay of top executives and that of the average pay of the lowest 10% in their companies should be limited to 75:1. ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:57:01 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Election special: 50% OFF Votewise Now!]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/news/215/election_special_50_off_votewise_now</link><description><![CDATA[Jubilee Centre is delighted to announce that we have negotiated an exclusive deal with the publisher of Votewise Now! to be able to make this available at 50% OFF the recommended retail price, reducing the cost from £8.99 to £4.49 (including postage and packing within the UK)! ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:16:48 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=215">News 2010</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Votewise Now! Helping Christians engage with the issues]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/votewise_now_helping_christians_engage_with_the_issues</link><description><![CDATA[ELECTION FEVER EXCLUSIVE DEAL: 50% OFF RRP! &quot;What this book may call us to is the revitalisation of politics as a whole.&quot; (Dr Peter Selby, former Bishop of Worcester) Votewise Now! argues that politics should be first ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:14:59 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=9">The Environment</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=10">Health</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=11">Education</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aiding Corruption and Dependency]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/278/aiding_corruption_and_dependency</link><description><![CDATA[A leaked United Nations report claims that up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamist militants, including the terrorist group al-Shabab. This, I suggest, comes as little surprise. ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:03:14 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=8">Government &amp; Foreign Affairs</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=3">Finance &amp; the Economy</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lock 'em up?]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/277/lock_em_up</link><description><![CDATA[I was struck by two contrasting quotes yesterday. Firstly, the mother of teenager Ashleigh Hall, murdered by Peter Chapman after he befriended her on Facebook, told ITV's This Morning, 'He shouldn't be allowed human rights; he's not human, is he?' Then on the BBC's Ten O'Clock News Kate Carroll, the widow of Constable Stephen Carroll, murdered by dissident republicans in Northern Ireland one year ago, invited her husband's killers to try talking to politicians or to talk to her, saying she was happy to speak with them 'because everybody is a human being.' ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:16:43 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Parent's Worst Nightmare]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/276/every_parents_worst_nightmare</link><description><![CDATA[Following yesterday's life imprisonment of Peter Chapman for the rape and murder of Ashleigh Hall after he befriended the 17-year-old on Facebook, the social networking site is today criticised for not adding a panic button, created by the Home Office's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), intended to help protect children online. ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:37:24 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=1">Sex &amp; Families</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=6">Science &amp; Technology</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=7">Crime &amp; Justice</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Biofuel To Biohazard]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/blog/275/from_biofuel_to_biohazard</link><description><![CDATA[&#039;The vast scale of palm tree plantations in southeast Asia (palm oil being the most efficient source of biofuel) is having a disastrous effect on the environment, partly in the wholesale forest clearance and burning that precedes the plantation, and partly in the monoculture that replaces diverse ecosystems.&#039; (Spencer and White (2007) ...]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:43:29 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=9">The Environment</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=6">Science &amp; Technology</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cohabitation in the 21st Century]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/cohabitation_in_the_21st_century</link><description><![CDATA[The nature of cohabitation in the UK presents a rapidly changing landscape. This report provides an up-to-date analysis of cohabitation statistics, using the most recent British Household Panel Survey data. It shows that cohabitation is a less stable form of relationship today...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:04:38 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=1">Sex &amp; Families</category><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=5">Lifestyle Issues</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK Marriage Index 2010]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/uk_marriage_index_2010</link><description><![CDATA[Marriage rates in England and Wales have fallen to their lowest level since records began in 1862. This need not necessarily be a bad thing as the number of marriages in a given year may mask, for instance, the fact that there were an unusually high number of marriages in the ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:17:23 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=1">Sex &amp; Families</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dale Kuehne on his time at the Jubilee Centre]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/dale_kuehne_on_his_time_at_the_jubilee_centre</link><description><![CDATA[Politics professor and pastor, the author of &quot;Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking relationships in an age of indiv...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:25:59 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond Individualism: May 15th Conference]]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/news/214/beyond_individualism_may_15th_conference</link><description><![CDATA[Each year, Jubilee Centre tries to organise at least one major event in the UK to give people the chance to engage with us, our research and materials. In 2010, together with another Cambridge-based research body, KLICE, we are planning a one-day conference, ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:04:02 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=214">News 2010</category></item><item><title><![CDATA['From Every Kind of Oppression']]></title><link>http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/from_every_kind_of_oppression</link><description><![CDATA[Modern slavery is thriving and millions of vulnerable people are subjected to debt bondage and trafficked across the globe. In many parts of the world, women are oppressed by honour killings, forced prostitution, genital excision, (sex-selective) abortion, and exclusion from e...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:07:05 GMT</pubDate><category domain="/jubilee/blogs.php?topicID=2">Christianity &amp; Religion</category></item><atom:link href="http://www.jubilee-centre.org/feed.xml.php" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>