LibDems 'do God' by opposing faith schools
It’s now coming up to three-and-a-half years since I put fingers to keyboard and began blogging on the relationship between Christianity and politics. Along the way it’s brought me into…
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Muslim ghettos and the "muscular" approach to integration
When, a decade ago, the Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali was warning of Muslim 'no-go areas', where sharia police stalk the streets and the real police fear to tread (and where Christians were threatened with arrest for handing out…
Non-Christian faith schools are "straining the State educational system to breaking point"
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
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…
AC Grayling's call to abolish RE in schools is dangerously ignorant
A couple of weeks ago I was in a conversation with a BBC producer discussing faith schools and their admissions policies. We talked about the possibility of my appearance on BBC1's Sunday…