Calais unaccompanied refugee children: Welby grills and Government blathers
Question: "To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to speed up the reuniting of refugee children in the camps of Calais and Dunkirk with their families in…
Exclusion
Accepting more child refugees from Calais prolongs the heartache of those already in care
It appears that the perfidious French have ‘got one over on us’ again. Prime Minister Theresa May has agreed with President Macron to pay additional monies to assist the control of immigration in Calais rather than at Dover, and additionally…
Calais migrants may not "break in" to Britain
It was an unfortunate, though, quite possibly, purposeful juxtaposition on the BBC News website. On the left, we read that dozens (actually thousands) of migrants are drowning in the…
Swarm, flock or multitude, Christ walks among the Calais migrants
"This is very testing," admitted David Cameron. "I accept that, because you have got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come…
Welby: "Europe as a whole must rise up and seek to do what is right"
"What is your response to this, then?" barks BBC journalist Lyse Doucet, in the wake of hundreds of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, with dozens of rescue boats now…
If Sentamu opposes Free Schools, why is he opening and blessing them?
The Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull is bucking national trends for schools in deprived areas, and the Ofsted data provides empirical evidence. Five consecutive years of improving GCSE grades,…
Sophie Wessex and the fashionable burqa
The Countess of Wessex is Patron of the London College of Fashion, in which capacity she hosted an event at Windsor Castle where she met representatives from the Islamic…
The myth of the undeserving poor
Unlike most Christian initiatives, this week's Feeding Britain report on poverty and foodbank use has whipped up a media storm filling up plenty of column inches and broadcast minutes. And it…
The power of God's love to transform hardened criminals
Over the course of the last week, the Church of England has been running a fascinating series of podcasts talking to offenders currently in prison about finding God and the difference…
Survivors of child abuse need more than just understanding
So, Justin Welby is back blogging again after half a year. It looks as though a meeting with a survivor of abuse has made a significant impact upon him. He…