Posts Tagged ‘Faith’
Why Britain needs Labour to find its feet — fast
BBC News - Will geeks inherit the earth?. Like it or not (and I don't), our electoral system is locked into "us" and "them". Government and official opposition. That's how the system works and, though I believe it's time to change it, as long as it is the system (to paraphrase Clint Eastwood in Magnum Force), we have to make it work. Until [...]
“Stupid” goes to ethics committee
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Lib Dem Cardiff Councillor John Dixon must have been surprised to be called to book over declaring that Scientology was "stupid". The fact that he did it on Twitter was probably enough to raise this to a national news story. But it is disturbing that a councillor can face censure for a remark like this. What Dixon actually tweeted was: "I [...]
Decade of distrust reaches an end
The 2000s began with the end of Bill Clinton's US presidency limping out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. They finished with the UK House of Commons facing a collapse of public trust which is set to result in 1/3-1/2 of MPs leaving or losing their seats in the 2010 General Election, and trust in politicians at an all time low of 13%, according to [...]
Peace and Goodwill
Believing is not in fashion. I have, during the last ten years, sat in countless meetings where people have tried to hammer home their point that it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as you don't act on it. But, at the end of a decade of doubt, it turns out that we did want our politicians to act out of principle rather than greed, and that [...]
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