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Simplicity and Solar Panelsand Solar Panels the Friend Independent Quaker Journalism Since 1843 13 May 2011 £1.70 the DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY Simplicity Simplicity and solar panelsand solar panels the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 COntents VOL 169 NO 19 3 Reactions to the election results 4 BAE board challenged 5 Simplicity and solar panels Indigo Redfern 6 Living by means and ends Timothy Phillips 7 Ireland Yearly Meeting David Keating 8-9 Letters 10-11 Horace Alexander: Gandhi’s interpreter Andrew Clark 12-14 Looking for Agnes and Olga David O’Donoghue 15 Jesus – who is he? Jill Allum 16 Q-eye 17 Friends & Meetings Cover image: Image this page: Solar panels. Horace Alexander Photo: Lilly Andersen/flickr CC. Photo courtesy Friends House Library. See page 5. See pages 10-11. The Friend Subscriptions Advertising Editorial UK £74 per year by all payment Advertisement manager: Editor: types including annual direct debit; George Penaluna Ian Kirk-Smith monthly payment by direct debit £6.50; online only £48 per year. Articles, images correspondence For details of other rates, Tel/fax: 01535 630230 should be emailed to editorial@ contact Penny Dunn on [email protected] thefriend.org 020 7663 1178 or [email protected] www.thefriend.org/advertise.asp or sent to the address below. the Friend 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ Tel: 020 7663 1010 Fax: 020 7663 1182 www.thefriend.org Editor: Ian Kirk-Smith [email protected] • Sub-editor: Trish Carn [email protected] • News reporter: Symon Hill [email protected] • Production/editorial assistant: Harriet Hart [email protected] • Arts editor: Rowena Loverance [email protected] • Environment editor: Laurie Michaelis [email protected] • Subscriptions officer: Penny Dunn [email protected] Tel: 020 7663 1178 • Advertisement manager: George Penaluna, Ad department, 54a Main Street, Cononley, Keighley BD20 8LL Tel: 01535 630230 [email protected] • Clerk of the trustees: A David Olver • ISSN: 0016-1268 The Friend Publications Limited is a registered charity, number 211649 • Printed by Headley Bros Ltd, Queens Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8HH 2 the Friend, 13 May 2011 News Reactions to the election results FRIENDS HAVE GIVEN contrasting reactions to He insisted that they are still ‘standing up for liberal last week’s election results. No Quakers, as far as the values and liberalism’ on issues such as human rights, Friend understands, have been elected to the Scottish Europe and migration. He said these issues ‘define us parliament or the Welsh or Northern Irish assemblies, as a party much more than perhaps our position on although a number of Friends continue to serve as the economy or on how to deliver social services’. local councillors. John Marjoram of Stroud Meeting, who was The severe backlash against the Liberal Democrats re-elected as a Green member of Stroud District led to a defeat for Alex Cole-Hamilton of Central Council, said he was not surprised that Liberal Edinburgh Meeting, who was hoping to become a Democrat voters turned against the party once ‘they Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP). There were began to realise the depth of the cuts’. He accused the also at least two other Quakers seeking election to coalition of a ‘betrayal’ of the NHS. Holyrood; Morag Balfour and Pam Currie were both He described the SNP’s success as a ‘pleasing candidates for the Scottish Socialist Party. surprise’ because of the party’s opposition to nuclear The last Quaker MSP was Mark Ballard of the Green weapons and the war in Iraq. As well as being pleased Party, who served from 2003-2007. There have been with the national increase in the number of Green no Quaker MPs at Westminster since 2001. councillors, he is also ‘delighted that the BNP have Simon Beard of Littlehampton Meeting, who done unbelievably badly’. contested Sevenoaks District Council for the Liberal Democrats, told the Friend that his party had at times struggled to convey a clear message. Symon Hill China Convoy on Christian Aid Week the move supported PLANS ARE UNDER WAY to launch a website QUAKERS THROUGHOUT BRITAIN are devoted to the relief work done by conscientious supporting Christian Aid Week (15-21 May) objectors on the ‘China Convoy’. by raising funds and promoting campaigns on The suggestion was made at the annual reunion of global poverty. the Friends Ambulance Unit China Convoy held at Friends in Amersham Meeting are running Friends House on Saturday 7 May. The China Convoy a daily ‘soup and cheese’ lunch, while Ealing was the name given to members of the Friends Quakers are holding collections at their local Ambulance Unit who worked in China between 1941 railway station. Last week Christian Aid also and 1951. challenged supporters to attempt to live on a The reunion was attended by some original pound a day. members of the China Convoy and the children of Christian Aid emphasise that they work with other members. partner organisations in the global south to David Brough, whose father Bill was with the achieve long-term change. They have challenged Convoy, said: ‘Very few of the original members are the UK government on issues including corporate still alive. But their experiences constitute a story well tax avoidance and the war in Afghanistan. worth telling and preserving.’ ‘The continued existence of extreme poverty ‘We are keen to keep their memory alive and to in a world where so much else has been find new ways of doing this,’ said Annie Simpson, accomplished is an appalling indictment of our daughter of Convoy member John Simpson. ‘The priorities,’ said the organisation’s director, Loretta creation of a website is a natural development of the Minghella. ‘To merely accept it as a fact of life work the group has done.’ diminishes us all as human beings.’ the Friend, 13 May 2011 3 Report BAE board challenged Symon Hill attended the BAE Systems AGM WHAT HAppENS WHEN the arms industry comes Dick Olver described BAE as a ‘force for progress’ in face to face with its critics? There is one day every year the Middle East. CAAT’s Anne-Marie O’Reilly asked when the representatives of a top arms manufacturer him how he felt when watching footage of the Bahraini are legally obliged to listen to opponents facing them protests, but he said he would not ‘comment on the in the same room: the annual general meeting (AGM) use’ of BAE’s products. When she attempted to put of multinational arms firm BAE Systems. the question to the rest of the board, a visibly rattled The event has become an occasion dreaded by the Dick Olver snapped: ‘I will decide who answers the company’s board. In recent years it has been used by questions.’ critics and activists as an opportunity to hold BAE to The formal structure of the AGM broke down as the account. tempers of both board and activists began to fray. The Hundreds of shareholders packed into the Queen chief executive, Ian King, defended his recent trip to Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 4 May. the Middle East with the prime minister (see ‘David They faced a stage on which the thirteen members of Cameron defends arms sales’, 4 March). He insisted: BAE’s board looked down from behind a long table. ‘every country has the right to defend itself’. There The AGM is open to all shareholders, who are not were shouts of ‘against its own people?’ only entitled to attend but also to ask questions. BAE BAE’s economic claims were challenged by activists made use of Powerpoint presentations and glossy pointing out that the arms industry receives well over brochures, but supporters of the Campaign Against half a billion pounds per year in subsidies. There Arms Trade (CAAT), having bought single shares in was a string of questions about bribery, fuelled by the company, were once again able to dominate the the remarks of High Court judge David Bean, who meeting. The law requires a firm such as BAE to hold said in court, in December, that BAE had benefitted an AGM and answer shareholders’ questions. from corrupt payments (see ‘BAE plea bargain gets It is sometimes joked that the AGM is not really a unbargained for results’, 7 January). BAE event, but a CAAT event at which BAE gets to Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the AGM came choose the date and the venue. after it had formally closed, when shareholders BAE’s chairman, Dick Olver, began the meeting by were invited to a free buffet lunch. The ‘genuine’ describing a company a world away from the popular shareholders tend to avoid the activists, although image of BAE. He spoke of the career opportunities this year a few engaged in polite conversation. One BAE provides and its contribution to the UK economy. shareholder approached the campaigners to accuse ‘BAE is committed to being a world leader in them of being ‘irritating’ and turning the AGM into a responsible behaviour,’ he insisted. ‘pantomime’. The themes changed abruptly once the meeting The unique nature of the AGM is demonstrated opened for questions, around three-quarters of which by arms trade researcher Barnaby Pace, who for a were asked by ‘activist shareholders’. The board was fourth year running used his question to challenge challenged about the Saudi forces who recently entered Dick Olver to a public debate. In the eyes of many, the Bahrain to help its government to suppress peaceful chairman’s consistent refusal suggests that he finds his protests. They used armoured vehicles made by BAE company’s annual humiliation in the Queen Elizabeth in Newcastle. II Conference Centre to be quite public enough. 4 the Friend, 13 May 2011 Talking point Simplicity and solar panels Indigo Redfern reflects on the spiritual side effects of solar panels A FEW MONTHS AGO I read a detailed article in This was all unconscious, of course, and completely the Guardian about solar panels and the new ‘Feed-in in conflict with my Quaker ideals.
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