Edyookayshun

03/10/2013 | Reform

I’ve just, for no very good reason, been looking on the Department of Education’s website at the section on state-maintained faith schools. I learned three interesting things.*

a) one third of all state schools are also faith schools. You probably … Read More

Who hates Britain?

03/10/2013 | Reform

This one page of an unknown newspaper contains the sentence “This Land of Hope and Glory is just a land of yobs and drunks” three times.

“My patriotism has gone out of the window” occurs just once.

It says countless … Read More

Mission and misunderstanding

02/10/2013 | Reform

I realise not everyone is as interested as I am in how religion, among other things, is reported in the media, and this is hardly in the realm of the Ralph Miliband smear, but I’m impressed by the shamelessly obvious … Read More

Quote of the day

17/07/2013 | Reform

“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.” Desmond Tutu

This struck a chord – not least because we’re getting the September edition … Read More

People like us

16/07/2013 | Reform

We did it in private. Didn’t we? It seemed easy to conceal. We regretted it, because we were caught and shamed.

Part of us disliked what we were doing, but another part dived in.

We broke the law, but in … Read More

Worse than crack

15/07/2013 | Reform

How much does crack cocaine hurt babies in the womb? There was an interesting and sobering answer to that question in The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday.

Researchers in Philadelphia, led by Prof. Hallam Hurt, started studying the question in 1989. With one in … Read More