There are a number of documentaries on the Clan Chiefs who used to run Scotland in days of yore. They still exist as nominal chiefs of the Scottish clans. However, the self-aggrandisement that is natural to the human heart ensures that Scotland and other nations continue to have their clan chiefs, for better or for …
Category: Politics
What does secularism have to offer?
Secularism is a worldview that wishes and aims to abolish religion from public life and, if it can succeed, from private life also. Richard Dawkins wants to stop religious people having the "privilege of access to the levers of power and to the megaphones of influence". He has also called teaching Christianity to one's own …
Men of violence
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, the complex of German Nazi concentration and extermination camps during World War II. Each anniversary since 2005 is now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Bible has much to say about violence. Many people do not read the Bible, so they do not know …
US Presidential priorities
With the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America today, in the 60th US Presidential Inauguration ceremony, people have noticed his influence through his mere election to the most powerful civil office in the world. Trump's first days as the President-elect has had significant effects. Before Donald Trump …
The price of losing Christian values
There is a saying: "You won't miss the water till the well runs dry." Britain's wells are running dry. The caring professions are running dry, which many now view simply as jobs without a sense of vocation. Speaking truth is running dry in politics and public life Isa 59:14. Christian conscience is seeping away from …
God’s restraining grace
Not many people know about God's restraining grace, and more so when it is being withdrawn from societies that were once predominantly Christian. Multicultural Britain Whatever way one defines multiculturalism, multicultural Britain highlights that the Christian culture that once predominated in Britain no longer does so. There are many consequences from this, but one effect …
What is islamophobia?
Most commentators discuss antisemitism and islamophobia in the same sentence, to give the impression that they are being balanced in their thinking. They are not – this thinking is defective and only adds to the confusion. The inability to agree definitions is confusing debate. The controversy on the definition of antisemitism created turmoil in the …
Non-Crime Hate Incidents
Repeatedly I hear commentators wondering from where the philosophy behind Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NHCIs) arose. NHCIs are topical because The Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson was investigated by Essex Police for a tweet that she had deleted a year before. In an interview with Nigel Farage on GB News [at 19:05 hrs], she highlighted that NHCIs …
Access to GB News
Is GB News a closing shop? GB News, like Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, was an attempt to promote Free Speech against the censorship that spiralled out of control during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. I have watched GB News and supported it from before and through the whole of its existence. I have watched as …
Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris and Joe Biden
Donald Trump has won the US Presidency for the second time in a historic political comeback unpredicted by many of the mainline pundits and utterly unexpected by the American Democrats. In his victory speech to supporters in the early hours of the morning he acknowledged that God spared his life to get a job done. …
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