Piling on the pressure: Outside COP26

29/11/2021 | Reform

Adam McGibbon gives a campaigner’s perspective on the UN climate summit

It can be immensely confusing working out what’s going on at a COP gathering. It’s confusing to untangle all the messages coming out through the media, but also confusing … Read More

Where there’s a will…

29/11/2021 | Reform

There’s a way to keep making a difference after you’ve gone, says Kerry McMenamin

What comes to mind when you think about writing your will? Is it something to put off? Is it a necessity rather than something you actively … Read More

More water please!

29/11/2021 | Reform

Reform readers helped Naison Hove provide a well for his village in Zimbabwe. Now he is asking the same for a school where the lack of water is hindering education

Schools across the world face all kinds of challenges, but … Read More

Place of running water

29/11/2021 | Reform

Laurence Wareing reports on a church community project offering food, books and more

If, as the Christian poet Steve Turner once observed, ‘there’s something quite religious’ about sharing a cup of coffee, then Sanctuary Café in Lymm is proof of … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: At some mainstream comedy clubs I was the only one in a mask

02/11/2021 | Reform

Paul Kerensa goes live

It’s been a funny old year, by which I mean not funny at all, and not old but weirdly new. Thankfully, cautiously, gradually, live events have begun tiptoeing back. Personally, I’ve been doing my bit to … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I am haunted by gloomy hymns’

02/11/2021 | Reform

Perhaps it is the time of year, but I am haunted by gloomy lines from hymns. ‘Change and decay in all around I see’ keeps coming to mind. The lawn is covered with fallen leaves. So much dead-heading is needed … Read More