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People prefer not to work on Sunday
When I heard that London Midland had cancelled almost all of its services on Sunday because insufficient staff volunteered to work on the Sunday, I was greatly encouraged. More proof that people really want to spend time with their families on Sunday: my colleagues on the Keep Sunday Special team would...
Alan White Posted: 8 September 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
The Kindest Thing
'Euthanasia is always a last resort and it's not a decision taken lightly, but sometimes it's the kindest thing. We did give him an anaesthetic and then we gave him an injection so he didn't recover from the anaesthesia; but if we hadn't done that, he would have died by himself and in doing it this way...
John Hayward Posted: 3 September 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Health,
£23,000 student debt a 'millstone'?
Figures released today by Push suggest that the average student beginning a degree today could expect to graduate with £23,000 of debt, rising to over £30,000 for some London students. For most people, this is a significant amount of money and represents a real concern, particularly at a time when...
Guy Brandon Posted: 18 August 2009 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Child Porn - Who's Responsible?
A children's charity has today confirmed the worrying extent to which 11-18 year-olds use digital technologies for sexual purposes. You may recall that this is something we warned of a couple of months ago, following our seminar on the impact of sexual imagery on young people, when we noted that everyone...
John Hayward Posted: 4 August 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Sex & Families,
On Bigamy and Divorce
A former porn star (or glamour model, depending on where you read your news) has received a 10-month suspended sentence after admitting four counts of bigamy. Somewhat bizarrely, she is now living in the home of her new boyfriend’s parents. The life of her fifth ‘husband’, who learned...
John Hayward Posted: 29 July 2009 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Schools for the 21st Century
Last week it was reported that 11-year-old Aston Padley, a committed Christian, has been turned down for a place at Wrexham's faith school, St Joseph's Catholic and Anglican School, because she is not an Anglican or Catholic, though the school's admissions policy clearly states that places are allocated...
Beth Green Posted: 20 July 2009 No comments
Keywords: Education,
The Denial of Dependency
Speaking after news of the assisted suicides of conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan last Friday at the Swiss Dignitas clinic, Sir Edward’s manager and long-term friend, Jonathon Groves, opined, ‘It was very typical of the way he lived his life. I do not think there is anyone...
Guy Brandon Posted: 16 July 2009 No comments
Keywords: Health, Lifestyle Issues,
A Point of View
One in five councils have experienced increased demand for state school places in the past six months, according to a survey by the Local Government Association, with another one in eight councils expecting extra pressure on places in the future. More than 15 per cent are also reporting a rise in families...
John Hayward Posted: 15 July 2009 4 comments
Keywords: Education,
Youth Development
Earlier this year I suggested that just as it would be negligent for a parent to teach their child how to operate a car and to hand them the keys without also instructing them in how best to drive the vehicle on the roads, so too we need to help children understand the 'rules of the road' when it comes...
John Hayward Posted: 9 July 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Neglect of the Elderly
Police investigating a water leak in Edinburgh this week discovered in a tenement flat the body of a pensioner which may have lain undisturbed for up to five years.One wants to cry out, why did nobody notice? Where were the family and friends of Isabella Purves, who would have been 90 this year? Yet...
John Hayward Posted: 3 July 2009 7 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Richard Gunton on 5 May 2013
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Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...
Bob Simpson on 26 Mar 2013
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