BHA NewsPolly Toynbee provided me with some Christmas cheer today when I read her column in the Guardian . Here’s a taster… True, it is embarrassing to be the only western democracy that has theocracy built into its legislature. The 26 bishops in the Lords interfere regularly: they are a threat on abortion, and their campaign sank the Joffe [...]
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Richard Dawkins made a point when he spoke at the Conservative Party Conference a couple of months back that he hoped that a site such as this one – reflecting right-of-centre, secular values – could be established in the United States. I’ve just stumbled into an excellent one. Check out Secular Right. Oh and here’s [...]
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Tony Blair tells all about why he took so long to convert to Catholicism. What do you think? Does this confirm that he felt that people might think him crazy or was a constitutional issue involved i.e. being Prime Minister was more important to him than his God and faith?
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I was lucky enough to introduce David Cameron at a Cameron Direct Event in Belfast last Saturday. During one of his answers he made clear, when asked what he’d do to revive Republican fortunes in the USA, that he probably wouldn’t go for a “Guns and God” strategy. One audience member made the point that [...]
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