My friend Brian Lightowler, who has died aged 93, was a journalist, author and campaigner. His book Corruption: Who Cares? (2003) set out best practice against corruption, including how to run national “clean election” campaigns to avoid vote-rigging. The “laboratory experiment” for these was in Queensland, Australia, in 1989, where Brian then lived; it involved all state MPs and church parishes declaring their support for a corruption-free Queensland.
In all this, Brian was motivated by his Christian faith, and by his involvement with the Moral Re-Armament movement (MRA, now renamed Initiatives of Change, or IofC), which he first encountered at university. He saw MRA as demonstrating that economic, social and international change could be advanced through the efforts of individuals. Its immediate effect on him was a decision he made to apologise for his jealous behaviour towards the president of a rowing club following an argument between them.
