Symon Hill is a British

United Kingdom

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 Socialist Pacifist Quaker Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 activist, and journalist.
He is associate director of the left wing Christian think tank Ekklesia

Ekklesia (think tank)

Ekklesia is an independent, not-for-profit British think tank which examines the role of religion in public life and advocates transformative theological ideas and solutions. Jonathan Bartley is the founder and co-director....

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Symon Hill was until recently media spokesperson for the Campaign Against Arms Trade

Campaign Against Arms Trade

Campaign Against Arms Trade is a UK-based NGO and campaigning organisation working towards the abolition of the international arms trade. Founded in 1974 by a broad coalition of peace groups, CAAT is united in opposition to the military industrial complex and the growth of the private military...

 (CAAT).He represented CAAT in the media when they took the British Government to court in 2007-08 over the cancellation of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE Systems

BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British multinational defence, security and aerospace company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc. BAE is among the world's largest military contractors; in 2009 it was the...

 arms deals with Saudi Arabia.
As a result comedian Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas

Mark Clifford Thomas is a left-wing English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s. He is best known for political stunts on his show, The Mark...

 nominated him as a Hero of 2007 in the Independent on Sunday

Symon Hill writes mainly on the issues of disarmament

Disarmament

Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms...

, public activism, and the role of religion in society. His comment pieces have appeared in newspapers as diverse as the Sunday Herald

Sunday Herald

The Sunday Herald is a Scottish Sunday newspaper launched on 7 February 1999. The ABC audited circulation in April 2011 showed sales of 31,123.From the start it has combined a centre-left stance with support for Scottish devolution...

, the Morning Star and the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...

. He contributes regularly to Guardian Comment is Free, The Friend and Movement. He has written a book, The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion (ISBN 978-1-906523-29-9) published by New Internationalist

New Internationalist

New Internationalist is a magazine from New Internationalist Publications, a co-operative-run publisher based in Oxford, England. It has editorial and sales offices in Toronto, Canada; Adelaide, Australia; Christchurch, New Zealand; and New York, USA....

magazine in March 2010 as part of its No-Nonsense Guides series.