So, the 'elite' President of Italy has vetoed the appointment of a 'populist' finance minister, citing "uncertainty" about Italy's membership of the euro, which is apparently inviolable. "I asked for... an authoritative person from the parliamentary majority who is consistent…
Goodness! The Bishop and I travelled to London the other day to see the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Try as we might, we couldn’t find any works by Landseer…
Praying before a blasphemous icon of another Jesus, standing in the shadow of a sacrificial cross which they deny, beneath the dome of a cathedral church steeped in idolatry,…
Today is Europe Day, marking the anniversary on 9th May 1950 of the Schuman Declaration which proposed the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). By pooling…
So far this year an estimated 2,643 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in a desperate search for a new life free from war, persecution and suffering.…
It was an unfortunate, though, quite possibly, purposeful juxtaposition on the BBC News website. On the left, we read that dozens (actually thousands) of migrants are drowning in the…
"This is very testing," admitted David Cameron. "I accept that, because you have got a swarm of people coming across the Mediterranean, seeking a better life, wanting to come…
They were 'the people of the cross, the followers of the hostile Egyptian Church' who had been held in captivity for weeks. They were marched to a beach in…
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…