No wonder Downton Abbey is a success: it shows what English people were like...
The word “spoilt” and its connotations have been besetting me on all sides. First, I happened to read Dr Aric Sigman’s The Spoilt Generation; this was followed by Theodore Dalrymple’s Spoilt Rotten!...
View ArticleParliament has the right to decide on ‘women bishops’: Anglo-Catholics please...
I begin with the BBC’s report of an interesting Early Day Motion (EDM) recently tabled by the Labour MP Frank Field, who is someone I normally greatly admire – if only, for instance, he had been...
View ArticleMPs seek to tighten abortion law
Britain’s abortion laws could be tightened for the first time in 20 years under an amendment tabled by a cross-party group of MPs this week. Conservative Nadine Dorries and former Labour minister Frank...
View ArticlePro-lifers should be wary of mandatory counselling before abortion
I have blogged about abortion before; it is hard to avoid the subject. When I do, there is invariably a post in reply that tells me how smug my views are in the light of the abortion this person had to...
View ArticleDoes the Government really intend to ‘tighten the rules’ on abortion? What...
Despite all the apparent evidence that, in the words of the wild-eyed Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, “we’re all doomed”, I tend to hope that any counter-indications that we’re not can be believed. I’m...
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