Living to Learn or Learning to Live?

Church of England Article By Lord Taylor of Warwick It was Benjamin Franklin who said, “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest“. A teacher at my Birmingham grammar school helped me see that a university education might, in the long term, be better for me than playing soccer for Aston Villa. I am not sure Villa would have gained much …

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Bladed Britain… Is There Hope?

Church of England Article By Lord Taylor of Warwick Every day there seems to be a new story about a youngster stabbed to death with a knife. The Government is talking tough in trying to combat the problem. But it only seems to see inner-city youngsters as the problem and thinks it can make things better by preaching at them. …

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Economy

Someone once said, “Greed is good”. That was the dreadfully misguided mantra of Gordon Gekko. He was the mercenary financial trader, a character played by Michael Douglas in the Oscar-winning Hollywood film “Wall Street” in 1988. The film ended with Gekko in ruins when his greed backfired, but Oliver Stone, the film’s director, was dismayed to see that Gekko became …