Please click to express yourselfWords and their changed meaning The process of that change fascinates me. First we need a definition from the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Then I will move on to what happened at Batley Grammar School. The
Please click to express yourselfMy letter sent to our local MP sent today Dear Nigel Huddleston MP I have written to you before about faith schools and their very existence which cause many obvious divisions in society. Parliament still actively
Please click to express yourselfWhilst walking my dog this morning I had a chat with a fellow philosopher, much younger than I, so quite representative of our respective generations. In five minutes we had solved many issues which had defied
Please click to express yourselfThe words anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic suffer from obfuscation (lies), misdirection and at its very heart, an absence of a rational definition. The current row about Anti-Semitism, and what most people think it means, is flawed and
Please click to express yourselfSuch an important issue this, as is evidenced on front pages everywhere last week and Questiontime on BBC 1 last Thursday. Opinions ranged from Rory Stewart(*1) saying “Kill them, there is no alternative” to the leftist
Please click to express yourselfA few words of light relief and escape from the nauseating, banal utterances from both sides of the public EU debate. This piece was written sometime ago by an American contributor to this blog, and for
Please click to express yourselfPeter Brookes says it beautifully in his cartoon which, incidentally, was printed a full six weeks before Saudi Arabia executed 45 ‘enemies of state’. It’s becoming clear that our view of Saudi Arabia is in need
Please click to express yourself… party politics! Party politics has stifled any adult discussion of the threat we face from IS (Islamic State) and no, it’s not ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq & Levant, the Jewish / USA version) or
Please click to express yourselfIn the light of the human misery being played out on Europe’s borders, I summarise some recent news coverage and offer a long term solution. Hundreds of thousands of foreign Muslims are trying to migrate to
Please click to express yourselfI am greatly amused by the frantic anti Jeremy Corbyn campaign being waged by the other three Labour party leadership contenders. 😉 They simply do not understand why Corbyn is so popular with many Labour supporters,