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Posts Tagged: Roman Catholic Church

Interview. Therese Coffey – “An element of a kinder politics is not calling other people bigots because you don’t agree with them.”

Here’s her take on Universal Credit, science, Liverpool, same-sex marriage – and her department. “Big thanks to the Jabs Army, we are the Jobs Army.”

By Andrew Gimson and Paul Goodman | 19 March 2021

George Freeman: The industrial strategy reforms I led helped to deliver Britain’s vaccine success. Now for the next phase.

I’m delighted to have been asked to help set up the new Taskforce for Innovation and Growth through Regulatory Reform.

By George Freeman MP | 1 February 2021 | 18 comments

James Somerville-Meikle: The Conservative Party and the Catholic community can find much common ground

The role of the Duke of Wellington and Robert Peel in bringing about Catholic emancipation in this country provides strong foundations.

By James Somerville-Meikle | 22 January 2021 | 61 comments

Britain’s relationship with the EU: no love affair, followed by a bad marriage and a stormy divorce

In his new history, Stephen Wall describes the unbridgeable divide on Europe into which any Prime Minister is in danger of tumbling.

By Andrew Gimson | 12 December 2020 | 131 comments

James Somerville-Meikle: Religious services are essential for many people; the Government must not stop them again.

Furthermore, there have been huge efforts at places of worship to stop the spread of the virus.

By James Somerville-Meikle | 9 November 2020 | 37 comments

James Somerville-Meikle: The SNP’s overhaul of hate crime legislation is a threat to freedom of expression in Scotland

Criminal behaviour under the new law would be based on offence caused, rather than intended – a significant difference to England and Wales.

By James Somerville-Meikle | 7 August 2020 | 74 comments

Chris Whitehouse: Faith leaders have a moral duty to be better prepared for the next pandemic

Never again must the doors of our nation’s churches close for fifteen weeks straight. Religion is more than ritual – it is life itself.

By Chris Whitehouse | 27 June 2020 | 91 comments

A sign of the times. The remarkable quiet that follows Labour’s commitment to decriminalise abortion up until birth

It is not only pro-lifers who might jib at the United Kingdom acquiring one of the most permissive abortion laws in the world. 

By Paul Goodman | 30 November 2019 | 65 comments

Future of Education 2) Mark Lehain: Now we need full academisation and reformed funding

The second writer in our mini-series says that creating more grammars is a distraction from change that matters.

By Mark Lehain | 20 February 2019 | 14 comments

Interview. “Look, this is a Christian country”, says Hinds. But he adds that the cap on new faith schools’ admissions should stay.

At times, says the Education Secretary, the post he holds requires “a bold and vociferous and constant presence”. But “at other times less so”.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 February 2019 | 82 comments

Interview: Lord Bird says homelessness is not just for Christmas, and the death penalty might deter knife crime

The founder of The Big Issue expresses his aversion to liberalism, and his disappointment with the middle class.

By Andrew Gimson | 20 December 2018 | 34 comments

Lewes Bonfire. You really want to see the Big Society in action? Then here it is.

There is a spirit of liberty at this event, informed by the belief that traditional British freedom includes the right not just to make a lot of noise, but to be extremely rude.

By Andrew Gimson | 6 November 2018 | 45 comments

Welby’s next stop should be a small business conference

His TUC account of the harm that some businesses can do should be balanced by one of the good that more do – and by projecting a personal theology of wealth creation.

By Paul Goodman | 14 September 2018 | 81 comments

Francis Davis: Why Hinds’ faith schools cap decision was right

Voluntary-aided status works both for Catholic schools and everyone else. Furthermore, lifting the cap from new institutions could have had unexpected consequences.

By Francis Davis | 13 May 2018 | 16 comments

Daniel Coughlan: Faith schools. What evidence is there to justify Hinds breaking a manifesto commitment?

While Hinds’ grammar school announcement was welcome, his U-turn on the cap on faith-based free schools is simply baffling.

By Daniel Coughlan | 12 May 2018 | 60 comments

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