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Friday Five: October 2013
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Monday, 21 October 2013. Plebgate and police relationships. 8216;When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.’ Thomas Jefferson. Recent developments in the ‘Plebgate’ scandal. Our society expects high moral standards of those in public roles; trust is damaged when these standards are not met. Public trust requires that the law will be applied without partiality, and that there will be an unwavering commitment to truth and justice. In Mr Mitchell’s case i...If these al...
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Friday Five: November 2013
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Friday, 29 November 2013. Cricket, character and controversy. 8220;It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.”. The nature of threatening comments made by Australian cricketers during the Test match last weekend have cast a cloud over their otherwise impressive performance, beating England by 381 runs. Contrast this with India’s Sachin Tendulkar, who played his 200. In TendulkarR...
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Friday Five: September 2013
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Friday, 20 September 2013. The grim price of porn. 8220;The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.” Thomas Huxley. Earlier this month Ariel Castro, who kidnapped and sexually exploited three women over a decade in Cleveland before their dramatic escape in May, committed suicide in his prison cell. At his trial, Castro spoke of his addiction to pornography. Exposure to pornography undermi...
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Friday Five: February 2014
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Friday, 21 February 2014. 8220;But O the change! The winds grow high; Impending tempests charge the sky;. The lightning flies, the thunder roars; And big waves lash the frightened shores.”. Matthew Prior, English poet (1664-1721). This has been the wettest winter for parts of Britain since records began in 1776. A relentless series of storms has battered the British Isles, causing £600 million of damage and leaving thousands of homes flooded. When a crisis overwhelms the normal structures and procedures ...
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Friday Five: January 2014
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Friday, 17 January 2014. 12 Years of Slavery or an enduring condition? By Robert Loe (Twitter @Robert Loe). 8220;Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be: and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be” Charles Sumner. Yesterday, nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced in Los Angeles with Steve McQueen’s ‘12 Years a Slave’ named in nine categories. The film, and the original harrowing story penned by the central character Solomon Northup, has left critics transfixed. Consider what you migh...
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Friday Five: Relational State of the Union
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Friday, 7 February 2014. Relational State of the Union. 8220;This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” Theodore Roosevelt. Economically, the gap between rich and poor is widening. Recent increases in wealth have largely gone to owners of capital, rather than to people who do the real work in companies (unless the latter are paid in shares – one reason why top executives’ pay has been soaring while average wages...America was b...
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Friday Five: August 2013
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Friday, 30 August 2013. The King of dreams. By guest contributor Jeremy Swan. 8216;In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth.’ Abraham Lincoln. King used the language of his audience to build up rapport and establish common ground. He appealed to shared American identity by referring to Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers, and then built on a sense of his...
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Friday Five: Easter Day visual interlude
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Sunday, 20 April 2014. Easter Day visual interlude. The Raising of Lazarus, by. Von Gebhardt came from a Prussian family and grew up in what is now Estonia, where his father was a devout Lutheran. His Protestant faith drew him to painting biblical scenes especially depicting miracles of healing, such as this one of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead (from John’s gospel, chapter 11). Jesus waited before coming but by then Lazarus was dead. Gebhardt longed to connect the truth of this story to his own lif...
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Friday Five: July 2013
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Friday, 26 July 2013. By guest contributor Jeremy Swan. 8220;This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,. This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,. Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth”. William Shakespeare, Richard II. Worldwide, approximately 255 babies are born. Not only has the birth publicly conveyed a positive message about the value of family relationships, the shared experience has brought people closer together and reinforced our common humanity. The young Prince Geo...
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Friday Five: The currency of welfare
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Friday, 21 March 2014. The currency of welfare. 8220;Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.” Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi. Although debate has continued since then over the impact this will have on the state’s finances, two things stand out. The welfare state is less than...
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