Editorial: Fighting for a home

25/09/2015 | Reform

In January 1944, near Szarkiszki in Lithuania, a train carrying Italian soldiers home from the eastern front at Vilnius was blown up and 200 men were killed. It was the work of Jewish partisans hiding in Rudniki forest. Throughout the … Read More

Editorial: Faith and politics

28/08/2015 | Reform

Thanks to the oddities of magazineland in summer, I’m writing this four weeks before you’re likely to read it. Each one of those weeks being a long time in politics, the risk of my saying something that has come to … Read More

Editorial: Live Aid 30 years on

26/06/2015 | Reform

On Saturday 13 July, 30 years ago, I turned on the TV in the morning and stayed glued to it till sundown. That may not sound like much of an achievement, but in the days when Saturday afternoon TV was … Read More

Editorial: Winners and losers

26/05/2015 | Reform

Elections, like battles, are lost and won – you’d be hard pressed in either case to think of one which resulted in a draw. But elections rarely involve so much winning and losing as ours in May.

The SNP increased … Read More

Editorial: A new creation

23/04/2015 | Reform

You might have seen a news report before Easter of an underground fire in Holborn, central London – the one where pillars of flame rose up from manholes. It was started by an electrical fault and fed by gas from … Read More

Editorial: Why do we stick with God?

24/02/2015 | Reform

I know a couple who didn’t split up. It seemed for a while like they would. It was a familiar enough story: Tough times, a valuable friendship that got out of hand, infidelity, recrimination, shame, hurt, anger. When it came … Read More