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Towards a Sustainable Common Fisheries Policy
'If no reform takes place, only 8 stocks out of 136 will be at sustainable levels in 2022. In other words, if we don't make structural changes to the way we do business now, we will loose one fish stock after the other, with a possible chain reaction for the ecosystem that is hard to predict.' At last...
John Hayward Posted: 13 July 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues, The Environment,
The Freedom Agenda
Former American president Ronald Reagan has today joined the ranks of other world leaders such as Mandela, Wellington, Nelson, Churchill, Lincoln, and Roosevelt whose statues adorn the streets of London. The base of the 10-foot bronze statue is engraved with words attributed to Margaret Thatcher: 'Ronald...
John Hayward Posted: 4 July 2011 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
The Government Needs to Know How Afraid People Are
The politics of fear may make for great headlines, but are we really a nation gripped by fear over government reforms? The Archbishop of Canterbury has today been criticised for a two-page critique in this week's New Statesman magazine entitled 'The government needs to know how afraid people are.' As...
John Hayward Posted: 9 June 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
What is the Big Society Way to Improve Education?
When David Cameron relaunched the Big Society Agenda in a speech given in Milton Keynes on Monday he spoke about the government’s education policy and how it fits into the Big Society: ‘We’re not introducing free schools and expanding Academies because it’s a way of saving money...
Mary Brown Posted: 27 May 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Freedom and Order: History, Politics and the English Bible
The past few days I have enjoyed reading a new book, officially out today, Freedom and Order by Nick Spencer, Research Director at Theos. We caught up with him to ask him about the book: 1. On what basis do you argue in Freedom & Order that it is impossible to understand English politics without...
John Hayward Posted: 12 May 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Coalition Fails Families
Prompted by a 'first year report' by the Centre for Social Justice on progress made by the government, LBC's Nick Ferrari this morning asked me what I thought of the coalition's failure to deliver on the Prime Minister's promises to make Britain 'the most family-friendly country in Europe'. Clearly,...
John Hayward Posted: 10 May 2011 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
The Key to NHS Reform
Andrew Lansley has apologised repeatedly to nurses who yesterday voted in favour of a motion of no confidence in the health secretary's handling of the NHS reforms and are angry about the way the government is running its new consultation. Under the reforms, GPs are to be given control of much of the...
John Hayward Posted: 14 April 2011 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Health,
Intervention in Libya: For Better or Worse?
'What is at stake is more than one small country, it is a big idea – a new world order – where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind: peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.' (George Bush, January 1991) Just as at the time...
John Hayward Posted: 25 March 2011 3 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Faith in the Big Society?
In case you missed it, here's my piece from the Guardian's Comment is Free this week: Christians will build the 'big society' – if they are allowed Worshippers do more voluntary work than non-believers. Yet the government is doing little to support them in their faith. The success of the "big society"...
John Hayward Posted: 18 March 2011 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
What Big Society Really Means: One Top Condition For Success and Five Practical Examples
TimeBank is a charity which puts volunteers in touch with projects where their skills are needed, but depends on government funding for a quarter of its income. In the past decade it has 'made an important contribution to mobilising an army of 300,000 volunteers and to improving the quality of volunteering,'...
John Hayward Posted: 9 March 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Jamie on 21 May 2013
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Mike Causey on 17 May 2013
Wow - thanks Ruth, for writing about this. I did not know about the high numbers emigrating, and it really...
ps Yembe Mpeng Jacob on 18 Apr 2013
Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...