Nicholas Baines

LATEST ARTICLES ( 599 )

• Onward and Upward: Ascension Day

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Today is not just Election Day – in the Christian calendar it is also... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Hillsborough Statement

  The Home Secretary's statement following the Hillsborough verdicts was read in the House of Lords yesterday. The former Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, who... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Child Refugees

  Yesterday evening (26 April 2016) the House of Lords considered amendments made in the House of Commons to the Government’s Immigration Bill. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Museums and the North

  I am the bishop on duty in the House of Lords this week. This means leading prayers at the beginning of each day's business – today at 2.30pm. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Hillsborough Verdicts

  This is the text of an article published in the Yorkshire Post a few minutes ago:I remember where I was on April 15, 1989. I was leading a youth weekend at Ryda... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Back to Iraq

  Following my recent visit to Iraq with Christian Aid, I asked five written questions in the House of Lords. The answers were published on 5 April and I reproduc... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• A Tale of Two Fathers

  Well, we didn't see that one coming, did we? The Archbishop of Canterbury has had to rethink who he actually is. As was revealed in the Daily Telegraph last... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• True Colours?

  

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show with Eric Bana, Rick Astley, Cyndi Lauper, Daisy Waterstone and Callum... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Doping and Duping

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:Call me biased, but this season has to be the best for football fans... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• The Price of Everything

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:When I got back from the Easter celebrations in Wakefield Cathedral... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Good Friday – Closer to the Light

  This is the script of this morning's Pause for Thought on BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans Show with Sara Cox:It's probably a good thing that I am sitting here in my... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Stay Or Go? (Iraq)

  

  During our recent trip to Iraq with Christian Aid, we had a difficult evening with a Christian priest who accused us (on behalf of the Western church) of... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Journey to Somewhere (Iraq)

  This is the script of this morning's Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme:I am not going to find this an easy week. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• So It Goes… (Iraq)

  

  We left Erbil in the early hours of Friday morning and got back to the UK later that day. Flying into Istanbul in the morning sun, the city looked like it alway... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Cost and Commitment (Iraq)

  

  Our last day in Iraq. We leave Erbil early tomorrow morning. All credit to Christian Aid's Louise Finan and Laura Taylor for putting together and leading an... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Mine Host (Iraq)

  

  I am in Northern Iraq with a small group under the auspices of Christian Aid. Yesterday morning we met a group involved in reconstruction and development work i... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Judas on the Telly: Radio Times

  Before coming to Iraq I was asked to write a piece for the Radio Times. Picking up on the Kate Bottley programme on Good Friday, I thought I would start from... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Push and Pull Factors: Iraq

  

  It is the fifth anniversary of the war in Syria.I am in Iraq with several colleagues and under the auspices of Christian Aid. It is a brief visit, but we are... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• Now for the Tough Stuff

  

  This is the text of my Presidential Address to the fifth Diocesan Synod in the Diocese of Leeds in Harrogate:Yesterday I spent the morning with over 100... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY

• BBC Charter Renewal

  There was a short debate in the House of Lords this afternoon on BBC Charter renewal. Allotted one hour, this meant that each speaker was limited to one minute. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2016 RELIGION, SOCIETY, SPIRITUALITY