Anglicans for Israel – Website now live

Anglicans for Israel is now live on the web, with a new blog-style site already containing plenty of useful articles, links and information relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the response of the Church of England and Christians generally. AFI lists its aims as follows:
1. To resist the call for a boycott of [...]

Labour’s Shame

Mr. Walter Wolfgang has been a member of the Labour Party for 57 years, in other words quite a lot longer than I or a lot of people have been members of the human race. So it is safe to assume that there are plenty of issues on which Mr. Wolfgang and I do not [...]

In Search of the Anti-Ken

Mark Steyn in yesterday’s Telegraph does a fine job of exposing precisely why Ken Clarke is not the saviour that some desperate types in the Conservative Party seem to think he is.
“Only Ken can go to Europe” is a weird post-modern inversion of the “Only Nixon can go to China” rationale: Mr Clarke wants to [...]

Carnivores

No sooner had I finished the previous post than I discovered that Melanie Phillips had just written something rather better in the Daily Mail. Aside from a discussion of why politics is now dead (I thought it was because Tony Blair killed it, but less cynically Melanie describes how the main issues which used to [...]

Keeping our eye on the ball

It was suggested to me today that perhaps a lack of enthusiasm for building a new political party to put the world to rights might indicate a disinclination to “get my hands dirty”. In point of fact I have played an active part over the past three years in trying to get two such new [...]

Bishop Bashing

The Rev’d Peter Mullen delivers a splendid response to the ghastly bishops’ report on counter-terrorism etc. He makes the excellent point that the bishops’ expertise in this area might be considered more valuable if they had made less of a hash of looking after the interests of the Church.
They want us to believe that they [...]

Party Games

Congratulations are due to Patrick Eston on his victory in last week’s Veritas Leadership Election. Unfortunately it does not seem to have helped. The stream of resignations continues – already one of the defeated leadership candidates has resigned after an election process which many members believe to have been flawed. Whether or not there is [...]

The Church Against America

A new report, by a “working group of the Church of England’s House of Bishops”, i.e. the Bishop of Oxford the Right Revd. Richard Harries and three of his chums, plumbs new depths of banal idiocy in relation to the vexed issue of terrorism:
From the perspective of many people in the world today, however it [...]

Germany Gets Cold Feet

After months of campaigning during which a victory for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and her programme of economic reform has seemed assured, the inconclusive result of the German election on Sunday is a shock. With the CDU and the Social Democrats (SPD) in a stalemate with about 35% of the vote each, both party [...]

America Screws Up

Plenty has been written about the horrific events on the American Gulf Coast and the destruction of New Orleans. Plenty also has been written about who is to blame. Well, if terrorism is always the fault of the terrorist, then a hurricane is the fault of… well, no-one. These things happen. As far as [...]

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