Is Multiculturalism Dead?
Prime Minister David Cameron Trying to define multiculturalism is rather like trying to pin tomato seeds down on a plate. So it was with some interest that I listened to David Cameron’s much heralded...
View ArticleBanning the Burka
Mural in Sydney, Australia Guidelines have now been published for the implementation of France’s much-publicised ban on the wearing of full face-coverings in public places, which will come into force...
View ArticleBritain on the Brink: What has Christian Faith to Do with Essential Values?
‘How is it that England, and then Britain, has actually become a nation? And the answer clearly is that, where the observer sees warring tribes, petty kingdoms, years of feuding and so forth, the...
View ArticleTough Moral Questions: Torture and the bin Laden Shooting
The slaying of Osama Bin Laden by US Navy SEALS earlier this month has generated much commentary in the media, and provides us with an opportunity to assess the quality of our public discourse on moral...
View ArticleAfghanistan, Zimbabwe and the Just War principle
The world has just marked with due solemnity and regret the tenth anniversary of terrible terrorist attacks upon the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Much has been written in recent days analysing...
View ArticlePolitics, Religion and the Trojan Horse Inquiry
As details of the Trojan Horse inquiry make their way into the mainstream press, and as it becomes apparent that there really was something very troubling going on in certain state-funded schools in...
View ArticleIslam: Friend or Foe?
2016 was in many respects an atypical year. In the political arena, two events confounded and unnerved the grandees of establishment media: Brexit, and, in the U.S.A., the Republican nomination for the...
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