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Book Review: The Pinch
'Choice and freedom are everything. We might argue about whether we like it or dislike it but the liberal progressives and the moral pessimists agree on the trend. Then there really is little chance of society meaning much apart from perhaps, if we are lucky, a feeble agreement on how we are going to...
John Hayward Posted: 5 February 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
Archbishops’ BNP Counsel
Yesterday I was asked in a radio interview for my opinion on the new guidance from the Archbishops’ Council informing clergy that they 'are under no legal obligation to include the BNP in election hustings meetings' (so long as the other parties’ representatives declare the fact). As I have...
John Hayward Posted: 3 February 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Growth in Inequality
Today's report from the National Equality Panel disturbingly begins 'Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrialised countries and more so than it was a generation ago.' Its charts stress how 'since the late 1980s income inequality has remained much higher than in the 1960s and...
John Hayward Posted: 27 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Privacy vs Safety - What do you think?
Last week the news, when not updating the death toll and aid efforts in Haiti, was filled with accounts of the Edlington 'torture attack' brothers. The pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were aged just 10 and 11 when they threatened to kill their nine and 11-year-old victims in a 'sadistic'...
John Hayward Posted: 25 January 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Sex & Families,
Votewise Election Watch: Education
Yesterday the Conservatives published their draft education manifesto, which contained a number of interesting points. Self-described in the media as ‘brazenly elitist’, the new policies promise to raise teaching standards by employing only the best graduates – all teachers would be...
Guy Brandon Posted: 19 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs,
Rights vs. Responsibilities
'All children will get lessons on how to say “no” to sex under reforms proposed yesterday by David Cameron to mend Britain’s “broken society.” He said school curriculums should include teaching about sexual consent – with an emphasis on “empowering” youngsters...
John Hayward Posted: 18 January 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Education, Sex & Families,
Economic Green Shoots: Only 1m using credit cards to pay mortgage
Earlier this week it was widely reported that one million households have borrowed money on a credit card to pay their mortgage or rent over the past year – 6 per cent of those liable for such payments. The charity Shelter claimed that this was a 'shocking discovery'. Initially this looks like...
John Hayward Posted: 14 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy,
Votewise Election Watch: Immigration
Race and immigration is currently the second greatest concern to voters, after the economy, with 33 per cent identifying it as the most important issue facing Britain today (and consistently so throughout most of the last decade). Recent projections from the Office for National Statistics suggest that...
John Hayward Posted: 6 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,
Votewise Election Watch: Health
The Conservative party has published its draft health manifesto. In it, they pledge to 'focus on the health results that really matter' and commit to 'improving the health of the nation.' However, there has been little serious discussion of what 'health' actually is. In Votewise Now!, the Christian Medical...
John Hayward Posted: 5 January 2010 No comments
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Health,
Shoplifting: the Message of Christmas?
Perhaps I shouldn’t rise to these things but you may have read the story of Tim Jones who is the priest of the St Lawrence and St Hilda church in York. According to the BBC News he ‘advised his congregation to shoplift if they find themselves in hard times.’ I confess my first reaction...
Alan White Posted: 22 December 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, Crime & Justice,
kiramatalishah on 8 Feb 2010
After last post on marketing without search engines, I decided to follow up with a strategy you can use...
Tom on 5 Feb 2010
I agree that the concerns of BNP members need to be taken seriously. Christian's involved in politics...
Graham Smith on 5 Feb 2010
I agree. Jesus calls us to reach out to the marginalised members of our society. Is BNP membership today...