This, my personal blog, seeks to apply Christianity to personal and public life. Today’s 70-minute interview on UK Column explains verbally how the Christian Party “Proclaiming Christ’s Lordship” seeks to apply Christian principles to public affairs.

The interviewer, Professor Diane Rasmussen is a professional librarian who has been exposing the wicked and overtly sexualised content of school library books for children, both in America and increasingly in the UK. In one interview she highlighted that major European publishers want explicit sex in future publications for young people .  She has been following and publicising the abuse in Fornethy Residential School, Scotland, and the inadequate response experienced by the survivors. The abuse of children has been a particular interest not only of hers but of UK Column’s founder Brian Gerrish.

UKColumn began in 2006, the same year as the Scottish Christian Pary, with the aim to expose corruption and through the intervening 20 years it has developed into investigative journalism. Its strapline is “an independent multimedia news website supported by its members.”

I have always admired investigative journalism, but the Christian Party does not have the resources to engage in it. We can only point to what is going on as we are able. We do not have the deep pockets of other political parties, but if Christians would vote in sufficient numbers for the Christian Party, we might be able to take on the many issues I mention in my interview, and many more. Meanwhile we rely on others such as UK Column to investigate and expose what is happening in the high echelons of power.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted Britain to be a meritocracy, but UK Column is “following the money”, the friendships, the meetings, the powerbrokers with jobs for the boys (metaphorically and genetically), exposing nepotism, croneyism and kleptocracy in most of the national and international bodies and NGOs that intelligent observers suspect but do not have the resources to expose.

The citizen journalism of the UK Column is more informative than most forms of online media owned by billionnaires with their inevitable prejudices. The most recent example is the new owner of The Daily Telegraph who said yesterday that his journalists must support Israel or resign [8’20] and UK Column informs us [at 19’25] that The Telegraph was bought for $766m after a three-year bidding war, but only two days after the conclusion of the recent Bilderberg meeting. UK Column contributors each have their own bias but it is a platform for free speech, is member-driven, and importantly provides sources along with its online interviews. I discuss some of these matters during my interview.