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Twenty Questions to a Fellow Blogger
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to respond to "Twenty Questions to a Fellow Blogger", In a spare moment last week, I did so, which Paul Burgin has now posted on his blog. Here's what I told him:What made you decide to start blogging?I have always responded to the news by informing the television...
John Hayward Posted: 10 March 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
George Osborne is right about debt
I was really excited to hear the news this morning about what the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne had to say today about debt. Here is what I have written for ConservativeHome:If anybody still doubts whether the Conservative Party can be trusted with Britain’s economy, they should listen to today’s...
John Hayward Posted: 6 March 2009 5 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs,
The Enduring Strength of Family Businesses
We have long argued that government should legislate to protect small and family businesses. We have also described, for instance in our Cambridge Paper Risk, reward and responsibility: limited liability and company reform, how:'The biblical ideal for business organisation seems to lie in the business...
John Hayward Posted: 2 March 2009 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Credit Unions - the credit crunch antidote?
My last blog on the economy had the rather unsatisfactory ending that a Jubilee Year wasn't the answer to the credit crunch and offered no response to the unspoken question: so what do we do?A hobby horse of mine came to mind. Surely Credit Unions were tailor-made to help meet the credit squeeze? On...
Alan White Posted: 26 February 2009 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Solving the credit crunch with a Jubilee Year?
A couple of times in the last month or so it's been suggested that we comment on a call for a worldwide Jubilee Year to resolve the current financial crisis.The first published call seems to have been an article by Niall Ferguson in the Financial Times of 18 December '08. He suggests a conversion of...
Alan White Posted: 24 February 2009 5 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
What Is Education For?
Two months after the government-commissioned primary curriculum review published its interim report, we now have an independent review into primary education led by Cambridge University. Unlike the government's Rose review, which proposed replacing all traditional subject areas with six new areas of...
John Hayward Posted: 20 February 2009 5 comments
Keywords: Education,
`Diversity` Threat Spreads
The General Teaching Council for England is developing a new code of conduct for teachers that threatens to prevent teachers from talking about their faith and could be used to compel teachers to promote viewpoints with which they disagree.The GTCE is currently conducting a public consultation on a draft...
John Hayward Posted: 17 February 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Education, Worldviews & Culture,
Twitter: perhaps a comment on society?
Twitter's website says that it's 'a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?' The video on the website (twitter.com) gives the example of a lady finding out about the daily...
Alan White Posted: 16 February 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Science & Technology, Worldviews & Culture,
Well done, Abramovich!
Now that's a blog headline you might not have expected on the Jubilee Centre website (and particularly from me as someone pretty disinterested in football).I'm not commenting on the dismissal of Luiz Felipe Scolari as Chelsea Football Club's manager or the short term appointment of Guus Hiddink as replacement.
Alan White Posted: 13 February 2009 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Why does UK have so many teenage mums?
Yesterday's papers told us about a 17-year-old, who gave birth to her first child at the age of 15, who is now expecting triplets. The girl, Sian Robbins admits, 'I didn’t really want a baby so it was a shock but we weren’t using contraception.'Today we learn that a 13-year-old boy, Alfie...
John Hayward Posted: 13 February 2009 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
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Mike Causey on 17 May 2013
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