The oppression, violence and discrimination against Palestinians in the West Bank, including Christians, must cease. The Israeli government is not above the law and must stop acting otherwise

Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, X/Twitter, 22 September

Just a reminder that, whatever his faults, Gordon Brown declined to take his prime ministerial pension, refused gifts while in government, paid his own way at Number Ten and, as a result left office in debt

James Macintyre, journalist and author of a forthcoming biography of Gordon Brown, X/Twitter, 19 September

Dial-a-death proved, even for someone as implacably opposed to euthanasia as I am, seductive. It offered a small glimpse into how evil works: remove the sacred boundary and it becomes commonplace. Easily digestible. The norm. A planned review of MAiD [Medical Assistance in Dying] in 2027 may see it extended to the mentally ill. Already in Canada, the default answer to prolonged physical and mental suffering is becoming what remains in the UK as murder-suicide

Matthew Hall, The Spectator, 21 September

Anger makes us uncomfortable, not because it’s never righteous but because it’s not polite. Because of this, we’re in danger of missing how wrath, when it’s safely expressed, can be a force for justice. The riots themselves were an expression of angry emotion, violently uncontrolled. But there lies the difference between rage and wrath: one is born out of a desire to for vengeance, whilst the other is born out of love

Jayne Manfredi, deacon and writer, Thought for the Day, Radio 4, 25 September

For far too long in politics, we’ve asked whether this change or that change to social security will result in more people working, instead of looking at the options that people have in the labour market and asking ourselves whether those options and choices are good enough

Alison McGovern, Minister for Employment, speech at Institute for Employment Studies, 18 September

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