Recorded on 18th June 2025

In recent weeks the UK government has announced a steep increase in military spending taking some of the money from the international aid budget, we discuss the implications of this decision from a Christian perspective.

Hosted by Sr. Katrina Alton

with Joanna Frew, Aisling Griffin and Matthew Neville.

Katrina Alton is a Sister of St Joseph of Peace, a Catholic religious order. She is a peace activist, and currently National Chaplain to Pax Christi England and Wales. She has a particular focus on the Spirituality and praxis of nonviolence as well as the formation of young peacemakers.

Joanna Frew is the Outreach Coordinator for the Rethinking Security network. She is an activist & researcher who has been involved in global economic justice, climate justice and anti-militarism work for 20 years. She is also a community gardener, historian of the British empire and lives in community with refugees and asylum seekers in north London.

Aisling Griffin works for Pax Christi England and Wales as their Schools and Youth Education Worker. A former secondary school teacher, she is particularly concerned about militarism of young people.

Matthew Neville is the coordinator of the FaithJustice Network for young adults, and the lead organiser of this year’s Peace Pilgrimage, walking from Oxford to London in September in witness against the DSEI arms fair. He is based in Birmingham, and involved in a range of Peace and faith based activism there.