When the Pope visited Britain early last year he challenged his audience in Scotland to evangelise society in face of the “rising tide of secularism.” He isn't alone, Baroness Warsi, chair of the Conservative party declared that secularism was 'not the British way' and Lord Sacks, Britain's Chief Rabbi has attacked secularism as “the moral ( Read more... )

The Government's proposed 'Great Repeal Bill' is urgently needed, but will its own ambition be its downfall?

From stamping down on public protests, to stifling freedom of speech, the last government demonstrated that Civil Liberties were not at the top of its agenda. In the wake of 9/11 and the war on terror, 'security' has been the byword of ( Read more... )

Yesterday's post was an April Fool written with the intention of ensnaring one or two of my regular readers, unfortunately they didn't seem to want to bite (James, you disappointed me, I expected an indignant rant ( Read more... )

I would just like to make it known that I'm now a fully paid-up member of the Labour Party. I wouldn't previously have considered it, but Ed's leadership seems to be moving further away from the authoritarianism of New Labour and is the only real alternative to the ConDems, so look out for me handing out fliers next time there's a local election!

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I didn't vote for Labour in the last election, and wouldn't have even if there was a reasonable chance the candidate could get in. But why not?  Well it wasn't over matters of the economy. Despite screams from the Right, the National debt in Britain is actually lower, as a percentage of GDP than Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, ( Read more... )

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Following the example of another blogger on here, tomorrow I'm going to have a day free of politics, so I'll answer any questions today.

I'll use this to show exactly where I stand, even though I think I'm a lot more right-wing in terms of economics than this test shows
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson ( Read more... )

In case you hadn't seen it, there is currently a campaign underway, backed by Rowan Williams and many other churches for Christians to stand up and announce they are not ashamed to be Christians and to remind people about the moral roots of this country.


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I'm divided on the issue of the proposed student fees increase. On one hand I believe very strongly that to have a well-educated and less ignorant population should be the Holy Grail of any government worth its salt on the other hand I realise that this education comes at a price which we certainly need to find the funding for.

The trouble is that ( Read more... )