Religion
Gove’s school reforms get off the ground
The arduous process of reforming our country’s education system begins today. After two school reform bills were announced in yesterday’s…
The Vatican plays the “Jewish Card”
Speaking in a Good Friday homily, with the Pope listening, the Pontiff’s personal preacher, Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, likened the drive…
A major test for the Charity Commission
There are few more damaging allegations against the trustee of a charity than that they forged the signature of a…
Scientology: Cult or Worse?
The problem Scientology has… Let me start again, among the problems with Scientology is that it wasn’t founded a couple…
Pope Benedict XVI is correct: the Equality Bill is fundamentally un-British
I doubt His Holiness and I would hit it off, but he is right that Harriet Harman’s Equality Bill would…
Will faith prove Cruddas’ undoing?
What intrigues me most about the Cruddas/Purnell axis is their commitment to faith in public life. Many politicians discuss faith…
What do Muslims think?
Coffee House readers sometimes complain that we do not talk enough about Muslims and Islam. I have certainly shied away…
A careful believer
Is David Cameron religious? In the course of his interview with the Evening Standard he provides a clear glimpse of…
The BNP’s appropriation of British institutions must be resisted
Hardly a day passes without Nick Griffin cosying up to a poster of Churchill and the Few. Valour provides potent…
Biblical Corruption: Liberals & Fellow-Travelling Surrender Christians
Did you know that the problem with the Bible is that it is, frankly, a book for liberal surrender-monkeys? Apparently…
Gordon Brown’s Presbyterian Conscience
When a politician tries to make a virtue out of the fact that he was brought up in a household…
Geert Wilders is Still a Bigot and Still No Kind of Hero
Way back in February I suggested that Geert Wilders should have been allowed to show his wee film Fitna in…
Faith and Begorrah…
Good lord, it’s like the last thirty years never happened: the Irish government wants a new law to prohibit blasphemy.…
Geert Wilders is Not a Hero
Several readers take me to task for not substantiating the suggestion that Geert Wilders is, as I put it, a…
Beyond The Lunatic Fringe
So, yes, there’s been a mini-hiatus around these parts. Cricket and an unexpected trip to Edinburgh for a first meeting…
Score one for common sense instead…
So I see this at The Corner: British Future “Muslims ‘to outnumber traditional churchgoers.’” Score one for Steyn. Interesting (well,…
A Picture of Putin
Rod has an excellent and rather moving wee tale about how Time magazine ended up with a photograph of Vladimir…
Hitchens on Huckabee
Hitch gets in touch with his inner Mencken today: However, what Article VI does not do, and was never intended…
Religious politicians: kooks or not?
Rod Dreher asks: I agree that it was stupid that Romney should have had to have given that speech, but…
You mean Jesus lived here in America?
The nice folks at Comedy Central email to say they’ve put a whole bunch of South Park Does Mormonism cartoons…
What an embarrassment!
Mitt’s Mightiest Fan, K-Lo, on the speech: I think a non-talking-head American watching the speech might be embarrassed at the…
Romney’s Unsurprisingly Terrible Speech
Mitt Romney’s “Mormon” speech must have been awful; Chris Matthews loved it. Clearly, I’m not the target audience for this…
First they came for Winnie the Pooh, and I said nothing…
The Blasphemy of Paddington Bear: here UPDATE: I forgot to ask – is Paddington Bear known at all, let alone…
How the Elector of Saxony Created Osama bin Laden. Or Something.
So it’s all-Corner all the time here today. Next up is the never-knowingly-undersold Mark Steyn: The Islamic “reformation” is, in…
Because the current war just isn’t big enough…
National Review Online’s Andy McCarthy believes that the premise that: “we are all quite aware that the Muslims we take…
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