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Connecting with Culture: Politics

Welcome to the Politics section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.

Private Lives

  • Date:

    03-09-2010

  • Author:

    Ben Care

What happens when privacy becomes a value...?

Social Trends 2010

  • Date:

    09-07-2010

  • Author:

    Nick Spencer

Middle age is always a good time to take stock, to analyse where we have come from and think through where we are going...

Business as Usual?

  • Date:

    21-05-2010

  • Author:

    Antony Billington

The flurry of interest and activity surrounding a general election is matched in Christian sub-cultures with the publication of books and articles on voting wisely, with the organisation of hustings events for the quizzing of local candidates, with earnest prayer for good government, and more besides...

Failing with Dignity

  • Date:

    14-05-2010

  • Author:

    Nigel Hopper

Given Gordon Brown's self-confessed discomfort with the media, and the various attempts to 'humanise' him for the camera, it is ironic that he never looked or sounded more human than when he delivered his resignation speech...

Election 2010

  • Date:

    06-05-2010

  • Author:

    Nick Spencer

Writing 'Connecting with Culture' always has its challenges, but writing it on the day of the closest, least predictable General Election for 18 years somewhat adds to that challenge...

Power to the Plasma Screen

Democracy is Changing

Uncertain Times

The Right to Know?

Big Boys Do Cry

Decade Horribilis

Seven Gaunt Cattle

'Peace, Peace', Where There is No Peace?

Will They Never Learn?

E-Day: What is Politics For?

Our Common(s) Lot

The G20: If I Ruled the World

Prophectic Voices

Weeping over Jerusalem, speaking over Gaza

Dignity for the Dying?

Climate Change, Stewardship and Renewal

America's Gift to the World

Unleashing Entrepreneurship

Shaping Education

A Healthy Appetite

Take it to the Streets

Courage and Conviction

Neither Private nor Privileged

Faith in the Political Process

Defender of the Faiths?

Seven Ways to Change the World

Discipleship - and the Bill

Best of British

Rowan in the Wrong Direction?

Taking Stock

Talking about the Teddy?

We was robbed

A Time for Sacrifices

Time for Change

The Parent Trap

Anita Roddick

Making a Difference

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Coffee Stains

Must the Sword Devour Forever?

Brian Who?

Flirting with Corruption

A Story Worth Telling

Setting the Captives Free

Suffer the Children

Amazing Grace

The Safest Bet

Don't Look Away

Arms and the United States

The Two Richards

Beyond the Veil

Childhood's End

The Opposite of Terror

Green Muscle

Putting Faith to Work

Rebuilding Trust

Is Gambling Fair Game?

Penny Lane

The Top-Shelf Campaign

Red Tuesday

Demonstrating Love

The Price of Peace

My Way

The Politics of Hollywood

Capitalism as if the World Matters

God's Politics

Cartoons of Muhammad

Standing up to Big Business

Reporting the Reporters

Movements and Moments

Live 8 and the G8

Paxman and the theatre of politics

Downfall

The Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping

Jerry Springer - The Opera

The Fear of Immigration

The Excommunication of Rocco Buttiglione

The Case of Charlotte Wyatt

Thought for the Day - 9/11

God is not a Republican

Fahrenheit 9/11

The Dogs of War

Another World is Possible

What the World Thinks of God

Searching for the Truth

Today the Headscarf, Tomorrow the Cross

No Room in the Nation?

Bye Bye Christmas, Hello Holidays

Change from on High? Alastair Campbell and God

A Prophet for our Time

The worst form of government

Sifting the Rubble of 9/11

The Horror in the USA

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