For too long, we have had an Islam which has its roots in a book that was written 1,400 years ago in a hot, violent place in the middle of nowhere with too many camels.  Seriously, most of us haven’t been there, don’t know anyone from there, and feel more at home in a “two [...]

Do you remember back in the “good old days” when it was bad to be gay?  Bad to be an unwed mother?  Bad to have pre-marital sex?  Bad to divorce?  Bad to lie?
I can even recall when the WORD divorce was dirty.  It seems that not only can we now do these things in the [...]

I was meaning to write about the ‘demonisation of British kids’ in light of the recent report by the UN on standards in the UK and reconciling this with an independent report about how a decade of measures to combat youth crime had failed to deliver the required result.
 It would have been a continuation of [...]