The Archbishops' Racial Justice Commission was announced last week. It is a 12-member board, chaired by former Labour MP Paul Boateng, now Lord Boateng, and its members include just one Conservative: the social entrepreneur Lord Wei. The other members are:…
Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party has pledged to deliver free fibre broadband to every home and business in the country by 2030. "What was once a luxury is now an essential…
Government Whip Chris Heaton-Harris has sent a letter to all university vice chancellors asking for the names of academics lecturing on European affairs, with particular reference to Brexit. He also…
It was a very, very subtle exhortation tweeted by the Rt Rev'd Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool. So subtle, in fact, as to be (he would insist) a totally undetectable…
We have another trailer for the emerging ideology of Corbynomics. Jeremy Corbyn has said there should be a law to establish a maximum wage, because it is "the fairer thing…
Spectator columnist and associate editor Rod Liddle sometimes sounds like he's channeling the EDL, or at least supping with Ukip, but he is, in fact, a fully paid-up member of…
"So enthused by @JeremyCorbyn4PM win today," tweeted the Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser, on hearing of the victorious re-election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party. "The world is…
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 bit doddery and oafish, Jeremy Corbyn stumbled and stammered through his first Conference speech like a 1950s grey-bearded puritan. He was robed in a bright red tie, though…
Talk to most Labour supporters about 'compassionate conservatism', and they'll scoff at the very notion, as though the evil Tories had stolen the robe of Christ and were masquerading…
"Just depending on the patient's anatomy, how many weeks, where it's placed in the uterus.. we're going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less…
"Equality as an aim in itself through government action is doomed not merely to defeat but to totalitarianism." So observed the Archbishop of Canterbury earlier this year at the…
Can you imagine Norman Tebbit, Simon Heffer, Nigel Farage and Peter Hitchens indulging in a group hug? No? Too macho? Okay, let's feminise it. How about Margaret Thatcher, Ann…
Having responded to the Preface of the Pastoral Letter from the House of Bishops “to the people and parishes of the Church of England for the General Election 2015″;…
Reasoned criticism of the Church of England is always welcome: as a human institution it boasts of no perfection; as a provisional branch of the Catholic Church it makes…
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,…
The Christian think tank Theos has quite a remarkable knack of producing reports that are both thorough and of an incredibly high quality. I've repeatedly covered their work over the last few…
We have been here before. In fact, the illiberal proposal raises its portentous head with such frequency that it feels almost teleologically predetermined. From Labour's assault on "hate speech"…