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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.

On Being Faithfully Present in 2012

  • Date:

    06-01-2012

  • Author:

    Antony Billington

News junkies have been looking back at what made the headlines in 2011: the phone-hacking scandal; the Arab Spring...

The Walk On By Society

  • Date:

    25-11-2011

  • Author:

    Jason Gardner

Civic duty has been in the spotlight this week, drawing into the debate a campaigner who has dubbed us the ‘walk on by society’...

“There is nothing either good or bad…”

  • Date:

    23-09-2011

  • Author:

    Helen Parry

To those of us who were taught other languages through traditional grammar, the dread word conjugate is the stuff of nightmares. Je suis, tu es, il est, we laboriously intoned. Far more entertaining is to play with the form and come up with sequences like I am firm; you are obstinate; she is pig-headed, or We are freedom fighters; you are guerrilla...

Issues of Justice

  • Date:

    19-08-2011

  • Author:

    Margaret Killingray

Two specific events have challenged me to rethink my ideas of justice. The first has been the recent riots. How do the police go about arresting people when so many are involved? Whom do they arrest and on what criteria, in the heat of the moment or on the basis of CCTV footage?

Panic

  • Date:

    12-08-2011

  • Author:

    Nigel Hopper

Making my way from LICC HQ to the London Palladium after work on Monday, I wondered whether Morrissey might see fit to include The Smiths' anthem 'Panic' in his set list for the evening...

United We Stand

The Glamour of Gossip

Information Overload?

Turbulent Priests

To See or not To See?

AV or not AV?

The West and the Rest

One Night Stand

Happiness in Practical Wisdom

Anarchy in a Cold Climate

Strong Words

Less of the Same

Eradicating Poverty

On Walking Away

Partnering on the Journey

Private Lives

Social Trends 2010

Business as Usual?

Failing with Dignity

Election 2010

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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