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Conservative Manifesto for a Merry Brexmas (and a Happy Lesser Evil)

November 25, 2019
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The Conservative Party Manifesto is infused with the status quo and brimming with measured increments of steady-as-she-goes. It isn't so much a vision by which the people shall not perish, but a play-safe blueprint for winning a majority to "get…

Decriminalising abortion: Labour abandons the Catholic vote

November 22, 2019
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A few weeks ago the Liberal Democrats deselected one of their candidates. Robert Flello, a practising Roman Catholic (and so opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage) was ditched just 36…

Labour conference welcome Bishop Liverpool

Would bishops ‘especially’ welcome the Conservative Party Conference to their diocese?

September 25, 2018
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The Bishop of Liverpool Paul Bayes exhorted his Twitter followers to pray for the party conference season, but he reserved an especial welcome for the Labour Party, whose conference is…

Why didn’t the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum speak up for Tim Farron?

November 29, 2017
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Former LibDem leader Tim Farron delivered the Theos Annual Lecture last night, entitled: 'What Kind of Liberal Society Do We Want?' The whole speech is worth reading, because it is…

The Conservative-DUP deal is good for the whole country: Labour’s hypocrisy stinks to heaven

June 27, 2017
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"The DUP are, let's face it, the Wahhabists of Protestantism," Labour's Angela Eagle told the audience of the BBC's Have I Got News For You on the evening of 16th…

Batley and Spen by-election: you don't respect a murdered MP by suspending democracy

June 19, 2016
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"Following the tragic killing of Labour MP Jo Cox, the Conservative Party has decided not to contest the forthcoming by-election as a mark of respect to a much-loved and…

The ironic lack of politics at Christians in Politics

November 12, 2015
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I genuinely expected to be disappointed when I first found myself at an event organised by a Christian political group. Four years ago I put a blog together after…

Jeremy Corbyn is crowned Labour leader – it's the prayer wot won it

September 12, 2015
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Archbishop Cranmer: "Please, Lord, please let Jeremy Corbyn win the Labour Party leadership. Pleeeeeease." It was a frivolous intercession made in the Prayer Room (at the bottom of the Homepage)…

The case for House of Lords reform has become unarguable

July 29, 2015
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We will ensure that the House of Lords fulfils its valuable role as a chamber of legislative scrutiny and revision While we still see a strong case for introducing…

Jeremy Corbyn's path to power is more plausible than people think

July 24, 2015
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Usually somewhere between three and 30 people avail themselves of the #Amen prayer facility at the bottom of this blog's Home Page. Since it was installed, the most believers…

Norman Lamb's tactics prove only Farron deserves to be LibDem leader

June 27, 2015
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By this weekend 61,000 LibDem members should have received their leadership ballot papers. It’s a straight shootout with the prize of either dragging the party back from the precipice…

This is how the 'Christian vote' now looks

June 16, 2015
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During the run up to May’s General Election, we had a few polls that attempted to gauge what the Christian vote would look like. Carrying out such an exercise…

Welby tells politicians: "seek to do right" (no coded political message)

June 10, 2015
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby preached earlier this week at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, at a service to pray God's blessing upon the new Parliament. It was attended…

Tim Farron 'clarifies' his Christian convictions in pursuit of LibDem leadership

May 23, 2015
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There is no doubt that Christian representation in Parliament came out well in this General Election. A handful of prominent Christians including Simon Hughes, Douglas Alexander and Jim Murphy…

The Epistle of St Nigel: Ukip’s crass ‘Christian Manifesto’

April 29, 2015
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Ukip have issued a 'Christian Manifesto'. They haven't issued a Muslim one, or a Hindu one, or a Sikh one, or a Buddhist one. Nor have they issued a…

Phantoms of a Labour-SNP opera

April 26, 2015
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If the polls are to be believed (and they are variable and conflicting, to say the least), the Conservative Party is looking to be unlikely to command a majority…

The only Church mentioned by 'Judæo-Christian' Ukip is prefixed with Winston

April 16, 2015
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For those who favour the secession of the United Kingdom from the European Union - and there are many millions who do, cutting right across the mainstream of political…

Cameron's good life is not unambiguous, but it is the best of the goods on offer

April 15, 2015
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Everyone strives for the good, but no one ever quite possesses it. It is a future project of hope and value. It might even belong to the past, because…

Scotland's Roman Catholic bishops condemn Jim Murphy's hypocrisy

April 11, 2015
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Another Pastoral Letter on the General Election – this time from the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Scotland to their 841,000 worshippers spread across 452 parishes (which is an awful…

Trident is the price we pay for peace and national security

April 9, 2015
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In their Pastoral Letter (remember that?) “to the people and parishes of the Church of England for the General Election 2015″, the House of Bishops called for a "real…