Operation Trojan Horse

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

January 11, 2017
Archbishop Cranmer
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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 David Cameron and Theresa May to examine issues of community…

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…

Ukip's "positive vision" for British Islam: ban all Muslim schools

August 8, 2016
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Ukip has a Muslim problem, which is fine if they're not particularly concerned about courting the Muslim vote, but not fine if it leads to the formulation of policies…

A National Register of Faith Leaders? Government plans to vet all ministers of religion

September 16, 2015
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There was an odd article in the Telegraph last week. Odd because the headline, photograph and content didn't quite cohere. Andrew Gilligan has apparently got hold of a leaked…

Non-Christian faith schools are "straining the State educational system to breaking point"

March 17, 2015
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In his Lyndwood Lecture delivered to the Ecclesiastical Law Society last December, former Attorney General Dominic Grieve QC MP made a potent case for the continuing Establishment of the…

Secularists must not be allowed to distort the argument for faith schools

March 16, 2015
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Today a new book, The Ins and Outs of Selective Secondary Schools, by the think-tank Civitas is being launched in Parliament. I will be there alongside David Davis MP, Tristram Hunt MP…