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Europe to Protect Sundays?
This week the European Parliament is considering revisions to the Working Time Directive of 2003. The initial Working Time Directive of 23 November 1993 made provision in Article 5 for a minimum weekly rest period, which "shall in principle include Sunday." However, on 12 November 1996 the European Court...
John Hayward Posted: 15 December 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues,
Human Rights - A Christian Conception?
"The origin of human rights is creation. Man has never 'acquired' them. Nor has any government or other authority conferred them. Man has had them from the beginning. He received them with his life from the hand of his Maker. They are inherent in his creation. They have been bestowed on him by his Creator."...
John Hayward Posted: 10 December 2008 5 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
Are Human Rights really Universal?
As the world marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on December 10th, how is it that an increasing obsession with rights has seen an apparently similar increasing abuse of those rights?From the corridors of power (most recently, the Damian Green affair) to...
John Hayward Posted: 9 December 2008 3 comments
Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,
Education Reform - What's the point?
"If children are to be well prepared for the challenges of life in a fast-changing world, the curriculum needs to be flexible, high quality and fit for purpose ... Space needs to be created in the curriculum for children to learn the basics while schools are given the flexibility to provide them with...
John Hayward Posted: 8 December 2008 4 comments
Keywords: Education,
Morality or Mercy for Asylum Seekers?
Once again, we see that what starts as points made about asylum and immigration policy quickly dissolves into people talking at cross purposes.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, made a plea in his Temple Address to the Evangelical Alliance at The Royal Society for us all to show more mercy as an expression...
Alan White Posted: 28 November 2008 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Fair and Just Economic Measures
On a day when politicians are talking about introducing economic measures that are fair and just, it is interesting to recall that the first act that Ezekiel mentioned, when talking about the unrighteous turning from his sin and doing what is just and right, was 'give back what he took in pledge for...
John Hayward Posted: 24 November 2008 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Mixed Signals on Trafficking
Yesterday the Home Secretary revealed new prostitution laws that would mean a man who pays for sex with a woman who has been trafficked or is under the control of a pimp could face a charge of rape and up to life in prison.Now, according to the Metropolitan police, 70 per cent of the 88,000 women involved...
John Hayward Posted: 20 November 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Anyone else for Assisted Living?
Assisting a suicide is an offence punishable by up to fourteen years’ imprisonment. Having failed in her attempt to argue in the High Court that lack of proper guidance infringed her right to private and family life under the European Convention on Human Rights, Debbie Purdy wants Parliament to...
John Hayward Posted: 17 November 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Health, Lifestyle Issues,
Crime & Welfare
Last week the Howard League for Penal Reform published a report that examined and compared different youth justice systems across Europe. Punishing Children claims that, whereas the response across Europe to children in trouble with the law is to adopt a deliberate welfare-based approach, in the UK it...
John Hayward Posted: 10 November 2008 No comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice,
The Death of Intimacy
Sunday's Observer had a quite remarkable account of a 29-year-old woman's epiphany about the true nature of sexual liberation, which reveals why the Government's proposals to make sex and relationships education compulsory in all England's schools are right - in as far as they go. Indeed her "'nearing-thirty'...
John Hayward Posted: 4 November 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
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...
Richard Gunton on 5 May 2013
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