Nick Hogan goes home

The UK’s first landlord to be jailed for allowing smoking in his pub (and due to being unable to afford the fine), has been released after a few days.
Anna Racoon’s campaign via Old Holborn’s PayPal account raised more than enough needed to pay the remainder of Mr Hogan’s fine. £8,664.50 in cash was handed in [...]

Smoked out, locked up

Leg-iron reports on the first publican to be jailed for allowing his customers to light up.
Nick Hogan, 43, from Lancashire, was sentenced to six months in prison for repeatedly refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation.
As Leg-iron says,
In this wonderful free country where everyone has the choice to do as they are [...]

The limits of “diversity”

I have been wondering how many other types of “diversity” we are expected to celebrate in the coming months and years. I ask because of the latest upset and offence caused to homosexuals and feminists by none other than Ed Balls, whose amendment has allowed state-funded faith schools to opt out of compulsory worship of [...]

The Pope angers secularists as Harman gives up on forcing churches to hire homosexuals

More good news for lovers of freedom as Harriet Harman decides not to overturn last month’s Lord’s vote that saved religious organisations from being forced to abandon their values and hire homosexuals for key positions.
Ministers were astonished on Monday when the Pope said that the Bill violated “natural justice” and urged bishops to fight it. [...]

A complete ban on smoking indoors – and outdoors?

I don’t normally write about smoking, but things have become so unbelievably crazy that I’m going to start. Scottish Labour welcomes:
an initiative by the UK Government to halve the number of people smoking by 2010. The strategy includes a crackdown on cigarette smoking.
A crackdown?! You mean a total ban in all enclosed public places is [...]

Three minute warning on Equality Bill

Christian Concern for our Nation has produced this short video on how the new ‘Equality’ Bill will determine who churches must employ. The government will stop at nothing until everyone follows their agenda like sheep.
If there is no freedom for Christians to follow their conscience then there is no freedom, period.
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Clegg: faith schools must teach that homosexuality is “normal and harmless”

Such a statement proves that everyone should have a problem with the Liberal Democrat leader, because he is certainly not normal or harmless. His statement is factually incorrect (a lie) and illiberal (fascist).
Firstly, homosexual behaviour is not normal for the very obvious reason that the human anatomy is designed for sex between a man and [...]

One rule for them…

It’s a common theme these days: one rule for ‘them’ and another for us. France’s anti-piracy goon squad pirates the font in its logo.
Hapodi, the French agency that’s in charge of the country’s new anti-piracy scheme (if someone you live with is accused of three acts of infringement, your whole household is taken offline and [...]

You would think that socialists would embrace Christianity

You would think that socialists would rejoice at Christ’s message to love and value everyone and that nobody should set themselves above another, as the Lord showed by meeting with the most wayward in society when no one else would, so why do they take every opportunity to denounce Christians today?
Mike McNabb writes on the [...]

Another home-schooled child kidnapped by the state

It is the sort of story which makes my blood boil. Another child in another allegedly free country, this time Sweden, has been kidnapped by the ‘authorities’ because he was being taught at home by his parents.
Christian home-schooling parents who had their son taken away by Swedish Government officials have lost their court case to [...]