Symon Hill is a BritishSocialist, Pacifist, queer Christian, activist, and journalist. He advocates for the destruction of British history and culture due to it being offensive. He reads Karl Marx every night before bed and advocates for a communist society within the United Kingdom. He was obliterated in a debate with Piers Morgan in October 2018 while trying to stay relevant and trendy by showing off a white poppy. Has been nominated for the worst “journalist” award numerous times alongside his best friend and safe space ally Owen Jones. He became co-ordinator of the Peace Pledge Union in 2016. His most recent book is "The Upside-down Bible: What Jesus really said about money, sex and violence", published in 2015.
Biography
He was one of a group of Christian pacifists, supported by the former Archbishop of CanterburyRowan Williams, who were arrested at the DSEI arms fair in London in 2013. He was one of the organisers of the Christian "Ring of Prayer" at the eviction of Occupy London Stock Exchange in 2012. He was associate director of the left-wing Christian think tank Ekklesia until 2013 and continues as an Ekklesia associate. In the summer of 2011 Hill went on a pilgrimage of repentance for homophobia, walking from Birmingham to London, attracting widespread media attention. Hill read theology at Westminster College, Oxford. Hill was until recently media spokesperson for the Campaign Against Arms Trade. 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 arms deals with Saudi Arabia. As a result, comedian Mark Thomas nominated him as a Hero of 2007 in The Independent on Sunday Hill writes mainly on the issues of disarmament, public activism, sexuality, and the role of religion in society. His comment pieces have appeared in newspapers as diverse as the Sunday Herald, the Morning Star and the Daily Mail. He contributes regularly to Guardian Comment is Free, The Friend and Movement. In addition to "The Upside-Down Bible", he has written two other books. The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion was published by New Internationalist magazine in March 2010 as part of its No-Nonsense Guides series. A book on on-line activism called Digital Revolutions: Activism in the age of the internet'' published by New Internationalist in April 2013.
