Where were the church leaders then when the welfare system made it financially disadvantageous for the worst off in society to take a job instead of benefits?
Perhaps the Levite who passed by on the other side had thoughts about lobbying for a stranded traveller intervention scheme
Church groups who work with fellow-believers abroad believe that the approach I followed as a Minister is right.
Far better to ensure that there’s room for Christians, and Christian values, in mainstream political parties.
The police and the Crown Prosecution Service should throw the book at anyone within the jurisdiction who has made death threats, either express or implied, against Maajid.
While we associate the Greeks and Romans with civilisation, the very word ‘Medieval’ has become a synonym for barbarity.
Answer: the latter.
Unless the West starts taking this problem seriously, such figures as President Vladimir Putin will exploit this policy and moral vacuum.
The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles gave a speech recently on Britishness. Mr Pickles noted that the challenges to British values come from different places: "Here in Britain tolerance, decency and respect for others are embedded deep within our psyche. Our warmth and hospitality, our willingness to welcome other views and embrace other […]
Compared to America, most of Europe finds little place for religion in public life. Yet it is America that has a secular constitution, in contrast to the formally religious constitutions of many European countries. In an article for Aeon, Ronan McCrea notes that – “…not a single European state has institutional arrangements that would satisfy […]
What happens when two atheists and two agnostics meet for lunch? When the folk in question are, respectively, John Gray, Alain de Botton, Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Bryan Appleyard, the answer is a very interesting conversation. Writing for the New Statesman, Bryan Appleyard provides a flavour: "The talk is genial, friendly and then, suddenly, intense when […]
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has speeded along implementation of the Localism Act to ensure that councils in England are allowed to say prayers at the start of their meetings. But Eric's writ does not run in Wales. So we are in the situation where councils hold prayers at the start of their meetings in England, […]
Added at 8pm on Sunday, Pickles video: *** Eric Pickles has written to councils to confirm that the general power of competence in the Localism Act includes the legal right to say prayers at the start of their meetings. This guidance is felt to effectively overturn the court ban on prayers last week. Remember you […]
Philip Hollobone’ bill to ban the burqa is rebounding on the Conservative Party as a whole.