Dispatches and the ‘pro-Israel lobby’
on Nov 16, 2009Cranmer does not know what Peter Oborne intends to say on tonight’s C4 Dispatches programme,Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, but judging by many of the histrionic comments beneath the publicity spiel, one might think they are about to broadcast a rev...

David Cameron does Songs of Praise
on Nov 15, 2009In a continuation of his 'doing God' period, today David Cameron appears on the BBC's Songs of Praise as the programme was filmed in his Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He confesses again his belief in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the...

Straight couple demand civil partnership
on Nov 14, 2009He he. Well, why not? Just as homosexuals complain that the institution of marriage is discriminatory because they are forbidden to enter the divinely-ordained institution, so heterosexuals may complain that civil partnership is discriminatory becaus...

Lithuania incurs EU wrath for law against the propagation of homosexuality to children
on Nov 13, 2009If ever proof were needed that EU national governments may no longer legislate in accordance with their own cultural traditions, or enact laws which uphold the Christian understanding of the family, it is now evident.Astonishingly (or perhaps not), t...

Victory for free speech in ‘gay hate’ law
on Nov 12, 2009Their Lordships have triumphed. The House of Commons has accepted defeat in its attempt to remove Lord Waddington’s ‘free speech’ clause from the Coroners and Justice Bill, wherein is contained the legislation intended to eradicate incitement t...

The poor you will always have with you – and they shall vote Labour
on Nov 12, 2009In his conference speech this year, David Cameron received a rapturous standing ovation when he said: "Who made the poorest poorer? Who left youth unemployment higher? Who made inequality greater? No, not the wicked Tories. You, Labour: you're the on...

Tom Wise is jailed, but Timothy Kirkhope is defamed
on Nov 11, 2009A most curious juxtaposition. The article on the EU Politix site which recounts the sorry tale of former UKIP MEP Tom Wise, who was today jailed for defrauding the taxpayer of £39,000, actually carries a picture of leading Conservative MEP, Timothy...

Lord Mandelson to be appointed Defender of the Faith
on Nov 11, 2009There is something of a decomposing inevitability in the news that the Right Honourable the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the County of Durham, First Secretary of State and Lord President of the Privy Council...

Lord Monckton: Global Warming is a pretext for a One-World Government
on Nov 11, 2009Lord Monckton has warned the peoples of Europe and the United States that the forthcoming Copenhagen Summit in December will use ‘global warming’ hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a one-world unelected ‘communist-style’ government w...

Archbishop of Canterbury invites disaffected Roman Catholics to join the Anglican Communion
on Nov 10, 2009Marvellous development. Tremendous day. Truly historic, momentous and extraordinarily generous. As Pope Benedict XVI issued his ‘Apostolic Constitution’ setting out the terms by which disaffected Anglicans are invited to cross the Tiber and join...