Rule of Law

Momentum drops commitment to nonviolence: how can CofE clergy be permitted to join this group?

"Momentum is wholly committed to working for progressive political change through methods which are inclusive, participatory and nonviolent," the Momentum code of ethics used to state. But not any more. The Corbynista Militants ('extreme left'?) have decided to drop their…

Gina Miller: “Brexit is about emotion. It is like a religion.” No, Ms Miller, that’s Europhilia

January 24, 2017
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Gina Miller is leading the legal fight against the Government's use of its prerogative powers to trigger Article 50 and thereby commence the process of leaving the EU. She was…

Welby dedicates the next year of his ministry to the defence of freedom and Judæo-Christian values

November 29, 2016
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You might almost have missed it – especially if your favourite spiritual sport is Welby Wanging, which is open to all people irrespective of age, sex, sexuality, race, creed, religion,…

Article 50 judgment is no big deal: Parliament will not subvert the will of the people on Brexit

November 5, 2016
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Has the world gone mad? What is this media hysteria? Why all the rage? Are people stupid, or is it just certain editors of certain newspapers? Who made everybody a…

Turkey purge: is military coup a lesser evil than Erdoğan's Islamism?

July 20, 2016
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Following last week's military coup – which is never the answer to anything – President Erdoğan is purging Turkey's civic institutions of every whiff of opposition, dissent, criticism and…

Nissar Hussain battered with a pickaxe in Bradford for converting from Islam to Christianity

November 21, 2015
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Quite a few British Muslims are eager to abandon the path of Mohammed and the faith of their forefathers. Some are brave enough to convert to Christianity and make…

The Church must challenge the State's fuzzy 'British Values'

September 23, 2015
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Fundamental British values have been defined by the Government as: “the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs." According…

White trash? Court rules that white girls are worth less than Asians

September 18, 2015
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Paedophilia, molestation, rape, grooming, 'white trash'.. Stories abound of the gangs of Asian (usually Pakistani) men preying on young white girls, believing them to be somehow worth less than…

Labour has become the party of terrorists, extremists and radical revolutionaries

September 14, 2015
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"We now have a leader who is as extreme and as hard left as any leader we have ever had including Keir Hardie. We have got a leader who…

Cameron declares war on British Jihadists

September 8, 2015
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"Today, I can inform the House that in an act of self-defence and after meticulous planning, Reyaad Khan was killed in a precision airstrike carried out on 21 August…

Evangelism threatened by counter-extremism measures

August 28, 2015
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The Evangelical Alliance has been surveying Evangelicals. 1,730 of them, to be precise. And it transpires that four out of five of them think government policies to tackle extremism…

Cameron can no more "destroy the Caliphate" than he can abolish the New Jerusalem

July 21, 2015
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David Cameron's long-awaited speech on Islamic extremism (aka Islamism) was sort of worth waiting for. As he expounded his 'One Nation' vision to defeat the "poison" of extremism, he…

The Divine Right of HM Revenue and Customs

July 13, 2015
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One expected a tactical Conservative prime minister leading a pragmatic Conservative Party in an expedient Liberal-Conservative coalition to propose or perform the occasional un-conservative thing. It was reasonably politic,…

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…

BBC spins disaffected Muslims to deflect from emerging Islamists

February 26, 2015
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The BBC published the results of a ComRes poll yesterday, which they spun in their own inimitable multiculturally-sunny and cloudless way. 'Most British Muslims "oppose Muhammad cartoons reprisals"', they…

Why do bishops flaunt their Socialism but shroud their Conservatism?

February 19, 2015
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When the Archbishop of York was giving media interviews recently to promote his book On Rock or Sand?, he made clear that "the theology of where I am coming…

What are 'fundamental British values'?

January 29, 2015
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In a context of fractious social division and increasing religious tension, the Government is on a quest for national identity, and education is the means by which it will…

What are 'Muslim values', Lady Warsi?

January 25, 2015
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The problem is her article's timing, and that when David Cameron stretched out his hand in friendship and promoted and indulged her time and again, there was impatience, irritability…

Eric Pickles: Jihad will be defeated by the "guiding principles of the English Reformation"

September 5, 2014
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Since Sayeeda Warsi left the Government, the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP has assumed direct responsibility for matters of faith. They were, of course, always under the aegis as Secretary…