Although the Christmas decorations are not yet back in their cardboard boxes, the Environment Agency has already cemented its plans for this summer. The Agency is offering forty summer internships to help undergraduates and recent postgraduates get a foot on the first rung of the environmental corporate ladder. Clearly, a good idea…except that White people […]
If you have read Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House, I am sure you recall the character of Mrs Jellyby. If you are not acquainted with this figure of Dickensian satire, then allow me to introduce her to you. Mrs. Jellyby is a very wealthy woman, but a stupidly selective philanthropist. She devotes her time and
Once upon a time, progressives were truly progressive. They had people like Dr Martin Luther King Jr., who believed sensible and decent things such as it is best to judge a person by the content of his or her character rather than by his or her skin colour. Ignore the late New Atheist Christopher Hitchens’
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So insanely far-reaching is ‘hate crime’ law in England that even children are now accused of it, and are being investigated by the police. According to a report by LBC, these children include a nine year old who called a classmate a ‘retard’ and two teenagers who told another student she smelt like a fish.
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Known for their ethics of non-violence and the forgiveness of enemies, how easy it is for people who hate Christians to persecute them. Now if Jesus had advocated violence and conquest as a way of spreading the faith and had given his blessing to armed resistance and terrorism, potential persecutors would leave Christians well alone.
Archbishop Justin Welby has just announced that he is resigning for failing to bring the abusive Church of England lay reader John Smyth to justice. And it is about time too, for the stench of hypocrisy that emanates from Welby (and the self-righteous Smyth too) is worse than old sewage. Welby, who has thundered against
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When I was an acne-encrusted and angst-driven teenager in the eighties, one of the risqué things to do was to watch the comedy The Young Ones. For those too young to know of this series, it concerned the lives of four university students renting a house together. Each was a student stereotype: Vyvyan the anarchic
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The most persecuted religion in the world is neither Islam nor Judaism, but Christianity. By persecution, I mean how Open Doors, a charity that advocates Christian freedom of worship, defines it, which is ‘any hostility experienced as a result of one’s identification with Christ. This can include hostile attitudes, words and actions towards Christians’. So,
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Well, well, well, after a depressing and burgeoning list of gaffes and scandals, the Labour government, for all its rhetoric regarding following a moral foreign policy, has added a large helping of neo-imperialism to the festering mix. Who would have guessed? As well as an encouragement of Argentina’s hopes of gaining sovereignty of the Falkland
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If they are not already doing so, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, the de facto custodians of the English language, ought to be considering a new noun – ‘a lammy.’ Inspired by the Falstaff of the front benches, David Lammy, it means a public figure, such as a politician, who wishes to appear
