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What is Proportional Representation?
Tearfund's Theological Advisor Dewi Hughes wrote in Votewise Now!, 'Politicians refer to 'this nation', and Christians pray for 'our nation', both meaning Britain - despite the fact that many Scottish, Irish, Welsh and English people consider these countries their respective nations. Politicians often...
John Hayward Posted: 11 May 2010 6 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Christian Share Index Launched
This week saw the launch of Europe's first Christian equity index. The Stoxx Europe Christian Index is comprised of 533 European companies that only derive revenues from sources approved 'according to the values and principles of the Christian religion', as assessed by a committee of ethicists and theologians,...
John Hayward Posted: 30 April 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
What are your hopes for politics?
'Politics cannot save society without the inspiration both of Christian values and of the Christian spirit of forgiveness, of love and of service. To double the standard of living without raising the standard of conduct between peoples would merely be to hasten our decadence. The Christian aim is that...
John Hayward Posted: 7 April 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues,
Ethics of Executive Pay
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...
John Hayward Posted: 17 March 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Finance & the Economy,
Aiding Corruption and Dependency
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. I recall speaking with the auditor of a World Bank project when...
John Hayward Posted: 12 March 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Book Review: The Pinch
'Choice and freedom are everything. We might argue about whether we like it or dislike it but the liberal progressives and the moral pessimists agree on the trend. Then there really is little chance of society meaning much apart from perhaps, if we are lucky, a feeble agreement on how we are going to...
John Hayward Posted: 5 February 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
Growth in Inequality
Today's report from the National Equality Panel disturbingly begins 'Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrialised countries and more so than it was a generation ago.' Its charts stress how 'since the late 1980s income inequality has remained much higher than in the 1960s and...
John Hayward Posted: 27 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Economic Green Shoots: Only 1m using credit cards to pay mortgage
Earlier this week it was widely reported that one million households have borrowed money on a credit card to pay their mortgage or rent over the past year – 6 per cent of those liable for such payments. The charity Shelter claimed that this was a 'shocking discovery'. Initially this looks like...
John Hayward Posted: 14 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
More People to Work Christmas Day
'Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.' (A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens) Christmas is traditionally the biggest family holiday of the year, but it seems that a loophole in legislation protecting workers' rights to time off means that many more than previously will be working on December 25th this...
John Hayward Posted: 7 December 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
Poverty of Ambition
Until 2007, the Government published an annual report, Opportunity for All, that charted progress on a range of indicators that affect young people's life chances. These included many of the risk factors that are known to be associated with childhood deprivation: low income; living in a jobless household;...
John Hayward Posted: 2 November 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
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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...
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Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...