I have wanted to write in depth about Richard Dawkins for quite a while, so I’m going to try in small chunks as work is busy at the moment.
His website contains the strap line, “a clear-thinking oasis,” which cannot be allowed to go uncontested.
Professor Dawkins is someone I follow on Twitter and I just received [...]

Tom Harris has just written this post about one of the schools in his constituency, good citizenship and talent:
But whatever you do, don’t waste your ability and your skills, because you’re the only person on the entire planet who can use them.
The Bible warns us not to waste our talents and Tom is right what [...]

It’s name-calling, according to High Court Judge Roger ter Haar QC.
Teacher Shaaira Alexis was poisoned with whiteboard cleaning fluid by one of her pupils, named only as Faye, after the teacher called her a ‘white prostitute’ for putting make-up on in class.
Miss Alexis’s claim for £700,000 is clearly ludicrous and she does look very scary [...]

I intended to write about the government’s intrusion into the lives of home schoolers before now, but Peter Hitchens and the Christian Institute have done it for me.
“Home schooling families are to face visits from their local ‘authority’ to ensure they are providing what the Government defines as a “suitable” and “efficient” education.
“Parents will be [...]

The Queen’s Birthday Honours 2009 have been announced. Arise, Sir Nick Faldo. Who could deny the multi-millionaire golfer a gong for services to, er, himself?
Christopher Lee also gets a sirhood. I feel this one is perhaps deserved for such an amazing career.
There is an OBE for Sue Johnston, formerly an actress in Brookside (formerly a [...]

A Scottish pilot who works for British Airways doesn’t like being called ‘Jock’ by his English colleagues. I don’t blame him, but Douglas Maughan, 54, went to a tribunal to claim that he is being victimised on the grounds of race.
A colleague wrote that “Jocks should [bleep] off to that welfare state paid for by [...]

It seems men are more attracted to the ‘girl-next-door’ look than a ‘perfect’ model or actress according to a new study.
I agree. Watching the semi-naked, plastic dolls on Top of the Pops, gyrating while miming their latest innuendo-laden record is not what I consider the epitome of femininity. There are other words that spring to [...]

Many people still don’t believe me that propagandists have been involved in shaping society for decades.
It’s the reason why many previously taboo subjects are now mainstream and even taught to schoolchildren as being normal or their ‘right’.
The Times Online reports there is a new children’s laureate, Anthony Browne, and he is stressing the importance of [...]

A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERS
The Times is reporting on the latest ‘initiative’ to curb teenage pregnancy by issuing boys as young as twelve with condom ‘credit cards’ “allowing them to pick up free contraception at football grounds, barber’s shops and scout huts.”
“Condoms will be distributed at places where boys congregate, to spare [...]

The Christian Institute via Cranmer…

The preacher didn’t mention homosexuality and as Cranmer writes, “the offence, of course, is the gospel of Jesus Christ. Yet now it seems that preachers can be silenced merely on the strength of a false accusation.
“His Grace preaches that salvation is found in Jesus of Nazareth and none other.
“His Grace is [...]