The controversy over lifting the cap on new faith schools is not confined to Catholic ones. Hinds has a knotty problem to untangle.
Plus: The mystery of the missing Kwasi Kwarteng. The presence of the ebullient Brandon Lewis. The absence and recovery of Nick de Bois. Plus: Capita’s failures.
She voted for Davis in 2005, and her hero is Airey Neave: “The escape from Colditz is I think probably the coolest thing any British politician has ever done.”
David Lammy and the Social Mobility Commission both made a big splash on the basis of weak evidence and flawed assumptions.
The idea that all groups should have the same outcomes is just an update of the old socialist idea of equality of outcome – ignoring the choices that individuals make.
By discussing a sensitive topic in Muslim communities, you do not give oxygen to racists. You cut off their supply.
There is a specific problem in Pakistan, especially where the majority of the Christians and Hindus respectively live, about non-Muslims being viewed as inferior.
Over time, proposals have either been denounced as politically correct nonsense, or embraced with an enthusiastic “me, too”-ism. Neither approach is exactly rigorous.
So much of the good work done under David Cameron was undone by this election campaign. Things must change or a majority will stay beyond our reach.
It feeds the homeless, does inter-faith work and welcomes dignitaries – including Malia Bouattia; a Vice-Chair of Stop the War, and Jeremy Corbyn, the local MP.
The Home Affairs Select Committee should hold the inquiry which the editor of this site called for eight long years ago.
Fears that the public are shifting towards aggressive, populist cultural policies targeted at Muslims are misfounded.
The latest embarrassment from UKIP’s Hartlepool campaign comes after Paul Nuttall pivoted his party to focus on Islam.
Britain should call in the Burmese ambassador, suspend its training programme with the Burma Army, and continue to press at the UN.