Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has been awarded a doctorate by Strathclyde University, honouring her work in bringing down apartheid and in supporting victims of AIDS. Read her inspiring acceptance speech on our website @quakersocialists.org.uk.

"CND is proud to be among the 55 organisations to have signed this letter, arranged by British Quakers and Rethinking Security, to the outgoing PM over the government's military spending hikes [which will] lose more jobs than create!" rethinkingsecurity.org.uk/open-letter-... via CND

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has been awarded a doctorate by Strathclyde University, honouring her work in bringing down apartheid and in supporting victims of AIDS. Read her inspiring acceptance speech on our website @quakersocialists.org.uk.

Rising food prices are one of the clearest examples of the cost of living crisis, and it's something that shoppers have to contend with every week. In @thefabians.bsky.social new pamphlet, I set out what a new Labour government can do to to bring inflation down.

One of the most fascinating chapters of 'We Are Not Machines' describes how Swedish trade unions and companies negotiated to find a win-win solution from automation thanks to the union representatives having seats on the company board. (1/3)

They introduced self-driving trucks which made the mine safer and more productive, while rejecting harmful new tech, like excessive surveillance. (2/3)

Sarah O'Connor's new book 'We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work' is an excellent read that reframes the conversations we have about technological change away from binary lists of winners and losers, and towards a discussion of power, politics and humanity. (3/3)

I hate the crowbaring of military service into debate (as if having served automatically guarantees a higher degree of integrity from the politician in question). We're not the the overly martial United States or indeed the Roman Republic. Make an argument. Don't appeal to machismo &/or flag-waving.

The best analysis yet of today’s Makerfield by-election by our Salter Lecturer, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social

It's a controversial by-election tomorrow. Quaker socialist and Green, Ruth Kettle-Frisby, gives her view of Andy Burnham on the Quaker Socialist website: quakersocialists.org.uk

I worry about anyone who isn't 'squeamish' about cutting support for people with complex physical or mental health needs, so it's potentially easier kill or mutilate someone's brother or son. I want a PM to wrestle with the morality of what he's saying. Words fall too easily from Andy's lips.

Quaker Rupert Read points to a report which praises the ethical values of Zack Polanski and the Greens ("love as a political emotion, compassionate listening to adversaries") but asks that those values underpin all Green policies not just some.

As an economist, former FT journalist and now Labour MP, l don’t think the bond markets have to fear a change of Labour leadership. The biggest problem for gilt investors and MPs alike is inflation – & it remains our common enemy. My @financialtimes.com op-ed 👇 (1/5) www.ft.com/content/2a64...

The Europe and Middle East Section of FWCC has had their annual meeting, 28-30th May online. Over 50 Friends gathered together. If you are intrested, you can read the epistle on the EMES website.

Read Michael Gilson's lively account of the little-known Quaker Socialist gardener, Richard Sudell. A champion of suburbia and of working-class gardens, he led the National Gardens Guild of which Ada Salter became President quakersocialists.org.uk

Ol Rappaport in a review on our website has given the highest praise to Rachel Shabi's book 'Off White: The Truth About Antisemitism'. Ol, a Quaker and a member of Reform Judaism, says that, if there is one book that everyone should read on antisemitism, it is this one. Go to quakersocialists.org.uk

👇🏽 strongly recommend this if you need a dose of sane, deep insights

We found this lecture extremely helpful - thank you @rachelshabi.bsky.social

Every year the Quaker Socialist Society organises the Salter Lecture. The 2026 lecture delivered by author Rachel Shabi on the topic of The Middle East: A Moral Catastrophe? was very special. If you click on quakersocialists.org.uk, you can find the video of her remarkable lecture and the full text.

This year’s Swarthmore Lecture focused on the faith and practice of the first Friends and explored how their complex legacy presents Quakers today with a range of challenging choices and dilemmas. Join these day events to explore the main lecture themes in more detail. https://ow.ly/xmo350YSs5Q

Only 12 days left now before our 2026 SALTER LECTURE, this time with award-winning journalist, Rachel Shabi. Don't miss this one..! No topic could be more topical, and few topics are as important as this one for the future of the world. For more info, see: quakersocialists.org.uk

NEW: "Enter, the Green Party, now in contention for power for the first time ever..." Check out my new #Substack, hot on the heels of the result from the unheard-of (and massive) by-election victory for the #Greens this morning. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Meet Hannah Spencer - Green MP candidate for Gorton and Denton, and the only vote to stop Reform.

“The world is held together by the love and passion of a very few people…”

A Quaker looks at the promotion of unethical capitalist values by the most popular programme on television.

As a resident of Birmingham, I would like to thank @rachelshabi.bsky.social for writing this balanced and clarifying piece about Birmingham's Macabi Tel Aviv fiasco.