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Almost everybody agrees that the UK National Health Service (NHS) is in need of radical reform, so let's start to spell out what that reform might look like. Other countries manage to deliver prompt and effective healthcare: it's not impossible. Bu
Today, most of the world has a birthrate which is below the replacement level: we have populations which are ageing, with increasing numbers of pensioners and decreasing numbers of working age people to support them. And we have an economic system w
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours of taking office. This was clearly never going to happen but, as I said (probably, far too often), ending the war was one promise I believed he was able to keep. The war i
If we want to prevent future genocide, it seems to me that memory is just the first stage: we also need to understand what happened, and then act to prevent it from happening again – we need to understand the many genocides, with all their varying de
The unity of the Body of Christ is central to our identity and therefore to our activity: there is only one Body, so we need to learn how to live in the light of this truth. We are all part of one Body, but that Body is made of many different parts;
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Where does power lie in the modern world? We need to know. Quite often, we need to know in order to survive, to navigate the ever-changing challenges life throws at us. And we need to know if we want to change the world, to make it a better place.
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I talk with a lot of people, and - possibly as a consequence - I am asked this question on a fairly regular basis: why don't people join the church? On the basis of no formal research whatsoever, but simply looking back at conversations over the pas
There is a common assumption in many Western countries that if you are religious, then you 'believe in God', and that your choice of religion is all about believing in the 'right' God. However, while you will find a God or multiple gods in many relig
One quick point about the UK National Health Service (NHS): almost everybody agrees that it is in need of radical reform, so let's start to spell out what that reform might look like.

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