There has been a lot of talk about the Bulgarian and Romanian citizens who are now free to live and work in the UK after controls in place since 2007 expired. It’s hardly been a stampede since the gates opened at the turn of the year, but you wouldn’t realise this from the rhetoric.
There has been a lot of talk about the Bulgarian and Romanian citizens who are now free to live and work in the UK after controls in place since 2007 expired. It’s hardly been a stampede since the gates opened at the turn of the year, but you wouldn’t realise this from the rhetoric.
For the past nine months I’ve been part of the Tower Hamlets Fairness Commission, trying to help the borough identify and address some of the key issues around wealth and poverty in this most unequal of communities. We published our report earlier this week.
For the past nine months I’ve been part of the Tower Hamlets Fairness Commission, trying to help the borough identify and address some of the key issues around wealth and poverty in this most unequal of communities. We published our report earlier this week.
A couple of weeks ago the Daily Mail wrote a mischievous article contrasting the numbers of people attending Sunday services in two East End churches (not many) with those at Friday lunchtime prayers in a Spitalfields mosque (lots).
A couple of weeks ago the Daily Mail wrote a mischievous article contrasting the numbers of people attending Sunday services in two East End churches (not many) with those at Friday lunchtime prayers in a Spitalfields mosque (lots).
I want to write something about marriage. It will only – obliquely – be about the debate on same-sex marriage, because I think that the controversy about this has created a smoke-screen around something far more important, far more profound.
I want to write something about marriage. It will only – obliquely – be about the debate on same-sex marriage, because I think that the controversy about this has created a smoke-screen around something far more important, far more profound.
When I was a young Vicar living on an outer estate in Sheffield, it appalled me to discover that some of my parishioners were being forced to hand over their Child Benefit books to loan sharks, or being charged exorbitant amounts of interest for loans simply to keep their families fed. I went looking for ways to fight this evil, and that’s when someone told me about Credit Unions. I went on to help set up Sheffield’s first community credit union, and have been a supporter of the movement ever since.
When I was a young Vicar living on an outer estate in Sheffield, it appalled me to discover that some of my parishioners were being forced to hand over their Child Benefit books to loan sharks, or being charged exorbitant amounts of interest for loans simply to keep their families fed. I went looking for ways to fight this evil, and that’s when someone told me about Credit Unions. I went on to help set up Sheffield’s first community credit union, and have been a supporter of the movement ever since.
