Niall Cooper: Reclaiming welfare

02/10/2013 | Reform

‘Welfare has almost become a dirty word’

I’m proud to live in a country which can count the creation of the modern welfare state as one of its finest achievements, and one of its key founding principles in 1945 was … Read More

The Enough girls

02/10/2013 | Reform

Stan Hazell reports on an open house for teenagers in Bristol

“If they swear in my company they have to do 10 press-ups,” says Zoe Williams (pictured right) of the youngsters in the football team she runs as part of … Read More

Christian activist: Stand against fracking

02/10/2013 | Reform

Westley Ingram joins the anti-fracking protesters at Balcombe

In a pleasant town in West Sussex, on a sunny weekday afternoon, I was arrested while protesting along with locals and national activists as part of the anti-fracking protest at Balcombe. We … Read More

Mission and misunderstanding

02/10/2013 | Reform

I realise not everyone is as interested as I am in how religion, among other things, is reported in the media, and this is hardly in the realm of the Ralph Miliband smear, but I’m impressed by the shamelessly obvious … Read More

Lights in darkness

02/10/2013 | Reform

Hans Wuerth tells a story from the Holocaust, published in English for the first time

Warned by a neighbour of their imminent arrest, on 29 January 1943, Max and Karoline Krakauer, a German Jewish couple, went on the run. They … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 5: 25-34

02/10/2013 | Reform

In the summer, my husband and I had the eye-opening experience of hosting a genuine, card-carrying US Republican – the new husband of a childhood friend of mine. He was very restrained, overall, but one night we asked him about … Read More