uk politics

An evangelical in the eighties: religion and politics from magistra 342 days old

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. ...

Ethnic minority leaders: the historical precedents from magistra 369 days old

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 ...

Parents and politics from magistra 413 days old

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 ...

Michael Nazir-Ali and ‘Christian’ values from magistra 531 days old

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 ...

Feminist nostalgia from magistra 572 days old

I’ve recently read a couple of articles by feminist columnists (Erica Jong and Polly Toynbee) inspired by the recent discussions of 1968, complaining ...

Haircuts and virtue politics from magistra 915 days old

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 ...

The retreat from goodness from magistra 996 days old

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 ...

Not in my religious name from magistra 1036 days old

The BBC and the Guardian are reporting demonstrations by Christians, Jews and Muslims to protest against new regulations outlawing discrimination in ...

Tax and marriage fallacy from magistra 1066 days old

Hey, ho, here we go again. The Conservative party have rediscovered that married parents are better for children than cohabiting ones and therefore want ...

Statistics and working class culture from magistra 1086 days old

The Conservative party report on the educational failure of ‘white working class boys’ (http://povertydebate.typepad.com/education/) got headlines in ...