It seems to have been a fortnight for battering the church and questioning its role in society. From the ruling about council prayers in Bideford to the latest survey sponsored by Richard Dawkins claiming that those who think of themselves as Christian show very low levels of Christian behaviour and practice. All this seems to have come to a head with Baroness Warsi's comments that "militant secularism is taking hold of British society.

As a local gatekeeper to the Church of England's reputation I feel the pressure is mounting and fear that a rising political temperature could create much rancour between those with different ideologies and world views.

For a football club that holds justice and fairness so close to its heart, it is remarkable that Liverpool FC has allowed itself to become so closely associated with racism thanks to the 'Suarez affair.'

The club's reluctance or inability to fix a relatively simple PR issue four months ago has created a spiraling, toxic mess of the club's own making.

Suarez's pre-meditated refusal to shake Manchester United player Patrice Evra's hand at the start of Saturday's league match at Old Trafford took the depressing episode to its lowest ebb, securing media coverage that any football club would pay millions to avoid.

With today's growth figures of just 0.2 per cent, its clear that we are now staring over the cliff into recession.

The Government needs to pull back immediately.

On September 23 2008 the Daily Post ran a story headlined "Wirral people at risk of rip-off fees" in which my former colleague Laura Sharpe revealed an Audit Commission report into Wirral's social services had found alarming practices had been taking place.

At the time little information was available beyond this report, and the authority reassured readers the allegations had been investigated and "an action plan put in place" to prevent it happening again.

Little was said of the whistleblower who triggered that report, or the full extent of the concerns which had been highlighted to managers in the Department of Adult Social Services (DASS).

Today, dear readers, I risk alienating my Labour Party colleagues and being disowned by my father and my son...by agreeing with David Cameron.

This is hopefully a temporary aberration, but let me try to explain.

"It's the begining , I think , of starting a new life because we've been in limbo for so long. So, today is where we can look to start moving on and just try and take control of my life once more."
Just part of what Doreen Lawrence said in reaction to the sentences imposed on Gary Dobson and David Norris for the murder of her son Stephen.

As part of my work for UNISON I met Doreen and her team at the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust in Deptford , South London on a number of occasions.

The Trust exists to raise the aspirations of young people and support them in their ambition to succeed. It's "Architecture for Everyone" campaign has been delivered in Liverpool amongst other cities and its pioneering work has helped many young men and women to fulfil their dreams.

UNISON has provided some support for the Trust and worked to have its objectives understood by the wider trade union movement.

Unsurprisingly the Commission for Assisted Dying report has created concern and controversy, not going far enough for some moving well beyond the pail for others. It is a difficult, moral, ethical and religious problem and one that we all have to grapple with. But it is easy to get into the theoretical and forget that beyond the politics are people struggling with circumstances that the majority of us cannot (and hopefully will never) comprehend.

Let's be straight. The Church of England's position is clear. A statement released this morning says "The present law strikes an excellent balance between safeguarding hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people and treating with fairness and compassion those few people who, acting out of selfless motives, have assisted a loved one to die." For now this is a good standpoint, particular given the concerns over the Commission's perceived bias, but the debate must continue.

Amid the row over the Cabinet papers of 1981, Matt Finnegan goes back to the future to imagine what the Cabinet papers from 2011 might reveal....

Secret Government papers from 2011 reveal that David Cameron's Cabinet sat on their hands as unemployment worsened and Britain headed towards a depression, we can exclusively reveal.

The recent video of a Fed Ex employee casually tossing a PC monitor over a fence unaware of the fact he was being filmed offers both a lesson in how quickly a reputation threat can go viral but also how a modern organisation should deal with such matters. There have been plenty of past examples of organisations either burying their head in the sand or simply denying there is a problem when the world knows otherwise. The growth of social media and the ability of ordinary folk to post and comment on pictures of what they see makes it impossible to avoid the issue and hope it will go away.

The response of Fed Ex has been first rate both in the way they have used social media to respond but also the speed with which they responded. This doesn't surprise me. I had recent contact with them via Twitter after I posted a complaint about the erratic driving of one of their delivery guys. Not only were they scanning mentions on Twitter but their response was immediate and helpful.

In the middle of the debate around the health reforms a lesser trailed change has been implemented which if true to its word will give us the best chance of tackling long term health problems we've had in decades - the integration of public health into local government.

The approach to date has been flawed. We have allowed unfair, unjust and unequal environments and social systems to generate what in essence are avoidable diseases and illnesses only to then buy back the health that has been lost through expensive health service treatments. How many cases of asthma could have been prevented by ensuring no-one has to live in damp or squalid conditions? How many road accidents could be prevented by more effective road management especially in urban areas? We know that 70% of health and wellbeing is influenced by social factors rather than the NHS. By bringing the Council and NHS closer together, NHS practitioners can work alongside colleagues across the Council and influence decision on these areas.