As a counterpoint to dr ngo, here is my experience of a subtly different sort of ‘Bible-based’ Christianity, as an Anglican Evangelical in the 1980s. … more
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uk politics
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Ethnic minority leaders: the historical precedents
@ 2008-11-08 – 09:58:48
Barack Obama’s election is undoubtedly a historic moment for the US, but it got me thinking whether other countries had politicians from minority groups … more -
Parents and politics
@ 2008-09-25 – 11:15:32
The resignation of Ruth Kelly from the Cabinet to spend more time with her family brought back thoughts I’d been having after the selection of Sarah … more -
Michael Nazir-Ali and ‘Christian’ values
@ 2008-05-30 – 23:31:08
The Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, has caused a lot of comment with his recent article Breaking faith with Britain. The Guardian even produced … more -
Feminist nostalgia
@ 2008-04-19 – 20:28:07
I’ve recently read a couple of articles by feminist columnists (Erica Jong and Polly Toynbee) inspired by the recent discussions of 1968, complaining … more -
Haircuts and virtue politics
@ 2007-05-12 – 09:16:07
A few weeks ago there was a row in the US about one of the presidential candidates (John Edwards) having an expensive haircut. If I thought about it … more -
The retreat from goodness
@ 2007-02-20 – 23:34:18
One of the few things that has been more depressing than the recent UNICEF report arguing that British children had the lowest well-being in the Western … more -
Not in my religious name
@ 2007-01-11 – 09:13:57
The BBC and the Guardian are reporting demonstrations by Christians, Jews and Muslims to protest against new regulations outlawing discrimination in … more -
Tax and marriage fallacy
@ 2006-12-12 – 15:18:36
Hey, ho, here we go again. The Conservative party have rediscovered that married parents are better for children than cohabiting ones and therefore want … more -
Statistics and working class culture
@ 2006-11-22 – 09:10:20
The Conservative party report on the educational failure of ‘white working class boys’ (http://povertydebate.typepad.com/education/) got headlines in … more
