I can reveal that Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay but celibate Dean of St Albans, has been blocked from becoming a bishop once again. He has not been chosen as the next Bishop of Southwark. Liberals will be dismayed that the Church has lost its nerve – but there is no reason for evangelicals [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Society
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Tagged Anglican Church, Archbishop of Canterbury, Catholic Church, church of england, crown nominations commission, gay and lesbian, gay priests, Jeffrey johns, jonathan wynne-jones, pope benedict, rowan williams
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Labour may as well not have fronted. If the UK electoral system was fair, this election would be a fight between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Even with its current unfairness, it may still be a fight between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. I wrote that after watching the second Prime Ministerial Debate on [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Northern Ireland, Politics, Wales, scotland
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Tagged Conservatives, david cameron, general election 2010, Gordon Brown, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Overton Window, Tories, Whigs
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“Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.” (Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania) How can one judge how much one loves a book when one also loves the author? This question has been raised by the recent debacle in which an anonymous [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Books, History, Internet, Law, Literature, Media, Society
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Tagged Amazon, anonymous reviews, book reviews, history books, Orlando Figes, Rachel Polonsky, Stephanie Palmer
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High Office isn’t as high as it used to be OR a message of fear, a message of hope and a message of exasperation. Usually if an hour and a half of television is going to be this tedious I can reasonably expect to see a little white ball being chased across a field by [...]
Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are preparing to make political history by taking part in Britain’s first ever prime ministerial TV debate. The party leaders have been rehearsing intensively for the 90-minute US-style live broadcast, in which every word and gesture will be analysed. They will answer questions chosen by the audience and [...]
… Or, should I say, Richard Dawkins. Apparently, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are consulting their lawyers to see whether the Pope can be charged when he visits Britain in September. Mr Dawkins and Mr Hitchens believe the Pope should face charges for the alleged cover-up of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, The Guardian reports. [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Law, Religion, Science, Skeptics
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Tagged atheism, Catholic Church, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, epistemology, homosexuality, is-ought problem, moral claims, morality, paedophilia, richard dawkins, sexual abuse, the Low Anthem, The Pope
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Political leaders have headed off on the campaign trail after Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the UK general election would be held on 6 May. He said he would seek a “clear” mandate to continue the “road to recovery”, as Labour bids for a fourth term. David Cameron, whose Conservative Party has been ahead in [...]
Mercurius at Larvatus Prodeo has a post about Tony Abbott’s triathlon attempt in which he criticises Abbott as an “overachiever”: Then there’s the overachievers. The people who are compensating for something. The people trying to fill the existential emptiness and smother those feelings of inferiority with accolades, approval and applause. Mercurius isn’t alone in criticising [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Education, Motherhood, Popular culture
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Tagged Australian culture, Australian diaspora, Australian education, Australian politics, bob hawke, Education, Larvatus Prodeo, overachieving, Tony Abbott
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It was all polite smiles and meticulous protocol as Jacob Zuma met the Queen yesterday afternoon. But just hours before he left for his state visit to Britain, South Africa’s flamboyant President revealed what he really thought of his hosts. In an astonishing interview given shortly before he boarded his flight to London, Mr Zuma [...]
February 17, 2010 – 8:14 pm
I was unaware until this morning that I had been quoted at length over at LP on the Pauline Hanson issue: not about her leaving the country, but about Tony Abbott’s shenanigans when he set up ‘Australians for Honest Politics’, which to my mind is a black mark equivalent to his behaviour over RU 486. I [...]
