Demographics

Mohammed, not Oliver, is UK's most popular baby name for boys

According to the Office for National Statistics, 6,649 baby boys were named Oliver last year, making it the most popular baby name for boys born in the UK. This was closely followed by Jack, and then Harry, followed by…

Canon Rosie Harper on the "good girl guides" who have been consecrated bishop

July 23, 2015
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"We haven't had anyone from left field," said the left-field Canon Rosie Harper to the left-field BBC, as two wonderful, gifted women were consecrated bishop by the Archbishop of Canterbury…

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…

Green Party: Christians welcome, but only if you ignore your faith

March 24, 2015
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Last Sunday I was invited on to BBC Radio Suffolk to discuss a poll they had carried out asking General Election candidates in Suffolk to state their faith. The…

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…

If Sentamu opposes Free Schools, why is he opening and blessing them?

January 20, 2015
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The Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull is bucking national trends for schools in deprived areas, and the Ofsted data provides empirical evidence. Five consecutive years of improving GCSE grades,…

Farage is right to defend our Judæo-Christian heritage

January 17, 2015
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Some things in politics are so utterly predictable that we can guess what our politicians are going to say with a high degree of certainty before they open their…

"If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France"

January 13, 2015
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The words of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls echo down the centuries of anti-Semitic Europe, where Jews have been marginalised, persecuted, reviled, expelled and turned to ash in the…

Palestinian statehood: the hypocrisy of Labour's three-line whip

October 13, 2014
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We know how the argument goes. If you oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state, you are a bigoted Zionist who perpetuates suffering and injustice through illegal occupation. If…