Jesus was a Jew, brought up within the Jewish faith. We cannot understand what he did and taught if we ignore this context. But Jesus had a very nuanced understanding of the Jewish faith, and of His own role within it.
Many people feel there is no point in voting, because 'nothing changes' - nothing important. Which is not surprising, because the system we have is designed to resist change. By definition, the current system works for the groups which get, and exp
Brexit is possibly the most divisive political event in the history of the UK. The fallout from Brexit has left almost everybody hurt and feeling cheated. This is an attempt to understand how we achieved such an unhappy outcome. If we can agree ab
One question I regularly hear is: can you be a politician and retain your integrity? Is politics such a dirty game that everyone who plays ends up covered in muck? I think there are three short answers.
* Yes, it is possible to be a politicia
Afghanistan is a country with several longstanding problems; in the past half century, interventions by other nations have failed to address these problems, and sometimes made them worse.
I think the underlying reality of our political battles is often much more nuanced than we generally recognise. You can't simply put people on a left-right axis, as if there was only one political choice we make: there are numerous issues we constan
