Rising popular movements question the common neo-liberal orthodoxy
David Stewart
David Stewart, S.J., who was the London correspondent for America from 2014 to 2020, files from his native Scotland, where he now lives and works.
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Light Piercing Shadow in 2015
The first days of January always cast their shadow over the coming year’s events, just as the final dwindling days of December encompass and focus the year just ending. We’re meant to look back, if not in anger, at least with relief that we got through it, and it seems, each year with an
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Dawn of the Planet of the 1 Percent
Top percentage world’s population will possess more wealth than other 99 percent by 2016.
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Paris attacks cause London security jitters
Delicate balance between freedom of expression and security is once again under discussion.
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London’s Jesuit College faces a challenging future
On Monday rsquo s Feast-day of St Edmund Campion S J perhaps the most illustrious and gifted of the British Jesuit martyrs Heythrop College announced that beginning the next academic year undergraduate students would no longer be enrolled Heythrop has been since the 1970s a constituent coll
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Gerry of Surprises: Remembering Gerard W. Hughes, S.J.
Gerry was not a rebel. He was a questioner. And we will miss him.
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Silly Season in the United Kingdom
Pastoral mists, mellow fruitfulness and snivelling head colds are not the only signs of the end of summer here in Britain. For decades, a distinctive peculiarity of the political scene in the United Kingdom has been party conference season. Always a sure sign of autumn’s arrival, these events
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Austerity and Europe Bite Britain
Tremors in European political life are nothing new nor is mass disaffection with conventional politics but what we rsquo re seeing at the moment speaks of a larger malaise Europeans in large numbers are not only questioning the remote and bureaucratic political institutions of the European Union
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Liberated by a Tweet
Humanity is a long way from grasping all the potential of the Internet even in the so-called First World where we are all online 24 7 at least so we rsquo re told In recent years we rsquo ve begun to distinguish between nbsp digital natives younger people who rsquo ve known nothing but the digit
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Scotland: After the Big Vote, Party Shuffling Begins
In the aftermath of the Scottish Independence referendum last week it is becoming clear that for many on the defeated ldquo Yes rdquo side this was only Round One On the day following the vote U K Prime Minister David Cameron declared in an early-morning statement delivered outside 10 Downin