WLP2: Workfare and church investments

This is the second letter of the Weekly Letter Project. This week (yes, I'm late) I am writing to James Featherby of the Church of England's Ethical Investment Advisory Group. Dear Mr Featherby, I was pleased to see that the national investing bodies of the Church of England have adopted a policy on executive remuneration on the recommendation of the Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group...

WLP1: joined-up housing help

This is the first letter of the Weekly Letter Project. This week I am writing to Rev Canon Paul Hackwood, chair of the board of trustees of the Church Urban Fund, about an idea for helping churches provide social housing. I struggled to get this down to one page of A4: the font is smaller than I'd like and I had to mess with the page margins! Next week, I'll try to keep it shorter. Dear Canon...

Weekly Letter Project

I know, I know, no posts for weeks at a time and then they all come at once. It's amazing how much I can write when I don't want to tidy up. I have written before on the problems of the "you make your own life" narrative. Since I wrote that post, the situation in Britain has not improved. Things are, frankly, dire and getting even worse. @kaygeeuk, who has carried out more activist interventions...