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Labour plans to downgrade Christianity in the school curriculum

December 5, 2019
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There's something tucked away on page 15 of Labour's 'Race and Faith' manifesto which has received no comment at all. No-one seems to have noticed their intention to downgrade Christianity in the Religious Education syllabus, and thereby diminish children's knowledge…

Teacher throws student out of class for insisting there are two sexes

June 17, 2019
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The student uses 'genders' when he means 'sexes', but the biological science of male and female (sex) has become so morphed with the sociological construct of masculinity and femininity, maleness…

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What bishop would tell a vicar: ‘You’re no longer welcome in the Church of England’?

June 6, 2019
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It made the pages of the Daily Mail, so it's serious: 'Vicar resigns after being 'silenced' over a Church of England school's plan to keep an eight-year-old pupil's sex change…

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Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the transgender-inculcated person

March 11, 2019
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'Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man' is a Jesuit maxim attributed to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society…

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Ofsted chief says they have ‘no anti-faith bias’, but does she have anti-Protestant leanings?

July 10, 2018
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Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman gave a speech yesterday evening entitled 'The Ties that Bind', which concerned the need for a little more 'muscular liberalism' in education. She spoke at…

‘Hatred is not needed to stamp out evil’: Martin Luther King (Jr and Snr) remembered 50 years on

April 4, 2018
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, one of the greatest figures of 20th-century America. Inevitably there will be much discussion of his legacy…

Toby Young and our progressive eugenics/equality hypocrisy

January 10, 2018
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The hounding of Toby Young from his appointment to the advisory board of the Office for Students (OfS) has been both unseemly and unjust. The Twitter hordes fulminated about his…

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Jo Johnson’s muddled and aimless thinking about freedom of speech in universities

December 28, 2017
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Universities Minister Jo Johnson delivered a much-trailed (..and here, here, here...) speech about the imperative of academic freedom of speech, which he says must be guaranteed on pain of universities…

Boys in tutus and tiara hysteria: media attack Church of England for totally the wrong reason

November 13, 2017
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Today's furore is caused by the Church of England's declaration that unrepentant sinners will go to hell and only Jesus can save them boys ought to be able to wear…

Church of England school headteacher brands Crossteach educational charity ‘extremist’

October 19, 2017
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Dan Turvey B.Ed (Hons) NPQH is headteacher of St John's Church of England Primary School in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. "Christian values are at the heart of all we do…

Welby is right: the UK economy is “broken”, but England’s church is limping

September 6, 2017
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It was an unfortunate coincidence that on the day the British Social Attitudes survey was released which announced that more than half (53%) of the British public now describe themselves…

Catholic School removes statues of Mary and Jesus to be more inclusive

August 28, 2017
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In this season of rampant anti-statue-ism, where Cecil Rhodes must fall, Edward Colston must tumble, Robert E Lee must be toppled, Captain Cook must yield, Admiral Horatio Nelson must be…

Hounding Tim Farron about gay sex deflects from LibDem vote to abolish faith schools

May 2, 2017
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While the Christian leader of the Liberal Democrats was being harassed and hounded day after day by liberal metropolitan journalists to pronounce on whether he believed homosexual acts were sin…

Why does the Church of England sneer at grammar schools?

April 10, 2017
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The Church of England is apparently not interested in opening new grammar schools. In an interview with the TES, the CofE's Chief Education Officer, the Rev'd Nigel Genders, says: "We've…

Integration tsar Dame Louise Casey has a problem with ‘religious conservatism’

January 11, 2017
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In 2013 Dame Louise Casey was named by BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour as one of the Top 100 most powerful women in the UK. She was duly appointed by…

Lord Carey removed from King’s College London wall of distinguished alumni

December 21, 2016
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The motto of King's College London is Sancte et sapienter ('With holiness and wisdom'). Sadly, it appears to have abandoned both. Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has…

Martyn Percy: Justin Welby “is preparing the ground for a complete volte-face on human sexuality”

November 15, 2016
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Here follows Martyn Percy's response to Adrian Hilton's second letter on 'Renewal & Reform' and the ministry and leadership of Justin Welby. It was a simultaneous exchange with Hilton's third…

If children need protection from ‘dangerous’ religious rituals, what about circumcision?

October 27, 2016
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Jesus only fasted for 40 days and nights, and that must have been tough in the Judaean desert, especially with Satan lurking around. Was that religious extremism? In India, a…

The Spectator brands Justin Welby “liberal left” – for seeking Islamist understanding

October 5, 2016
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Spectator columnist and associate editor Rod Liddle sometimes sounds like he's channeling the EDL, or at least supping with Ukip, but he is, in fact, a fully paid-up member of…

Inadequate Christian schools named and shamed; inadequate Muslim school.. censored

September 29, 2016
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When the Durham Free School and Grindon Hall Christian School were excoriated by Ofsted last year for a raft of educational deficiencies (not least of which was failing to promote…