Newsnight, Tory Danny Kruger Says Food Banks a “Success”.

A foodbank in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

On Newsnight yesterday David Cameron’s ex-speech-writer Danny Kruger heralded Food Banks as a success for the Big Society. This was his response to a report on the growing number of charitable agencies offering basic goods, for a limited period, to … Continue reading

Guest Contributor Bernadette Meaden – “The collusion of charities in the dismantling of the welfare state”…

Are well-meaning but politically naïve charities unwittingly helping the government to dismantle the welfare state? Ekklesia has been examining the new emerging relationship between (faith based) charities and Government since 2006.  Prior to the last general election I talked to … Continue reading