Stonewall banks £1.1m of taxpayers’ money

Mar 15, 2024 by

from The Christian Instistute: Controversial pro-trans lobby group Stonewall received more than £1.1 million from the public purse last year, new figures have revealed. The think-tank TaxPayers’ Alliance found 14 per cent of Stonewall’s...

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Old Ireland stirs

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Mehmet Çiftçi, Artillery Row: Chesterton once said: ‘I have always been more inclined to believe the ruck of hard-working people than to believe that special and troublesome literary class to which I belong.’ It looks like the...

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The west’s abandonment of the Jews

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Melanie Phillips: Human rights culture has mainstreamed Hamas lies. With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that western civilisation is no longer civilised. Israel’s war of defence against a genocidal enemy is an...

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‘The Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice’: a discussion

Mar 15, 2024 by

by John Root, Psephizo: By a macabre coincidence the Church of England is simultaneously engaged in debates about safeguarding and the victims of abuse, and responses to its involvement in slavery in the Caribbean. Both issues raise two...

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Keir Starmer is dead wrong about assisted suicide

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Kevin Yuill, spiked: ‘Assisted dying’ is a threat to the most vulnerable. It must be resisted. Keir Starmer has promised to give MPs a free vote on legalising assisted suicide if Labour wins the next UK General Election. He made the...

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Michael Gove ‘didn’t go far enough’ says his own social cohesion adviser

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Matt Dathan, The Times: Communities secretary names five groups that could breach new rules, but Sara Khan warns crackdown needs to be tougher to stop hate polluting wider society. Michael Gove has named and shamed five groups likely...

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Number of people giving regularly to parish churches has declined

Mar 15, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: The Church of England’s Parish Finance Statistics 2022 shows that the number of regular givers has fallen each year over the past nine years to stand at around 401,000 in 2022 compared with 572,000 in 2013. The...

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Assisted dying: Canada’s sinister experiment

Mar 15, 2024 by

from spiked: Justin Trudeau’s Canada has taken a truly sinister turn. Over the past decade, it has become a pioneer in what is euphemistically called ‘assisted dying’, whereby the state helps people to end their lives. At first, it was...

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Diocese of Leicester: Trailblazer or Portent of what’s to come?

Mar 15, 2024 by

from Anglican Futures: Another “In View of Experience” blog, offering local lessons for the wider Church. Over the past few years, the Diocese of Leicester has attempted the most radical reorganisation of its structure, since...

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Say it loud: silent discos are a crime against culture

Mar 15, 2024 by

by Gavin Haynes, Telegraph: As the UK’s nightlife dies, a fun-free facsimile of it is quietly booming – and making us all look like idiots. In Church Going, Philip Larkin stops in a provincial church, pooters about “in awkward reverence”,...

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