Published on
4 January 2011
Posted in Marriage & Family, Same-Sex Marriage
A court has deferred judgment in a landmark case involving hoteliers who refused to allow a homosexual couple to rent a double room at their Bed and Breakfast in Marazion, near Penzance in Cornwall. Many may be tempted to dismiss this as another failure of the Cornish to ‘move with the times’, yet this case […]
Published on
23 November 2010
Posted in Marriage & Family, Same-Sex Marriage
From a guest blogger: This week The Economist reported on the subject of legalising gay marriage that ‘one poll suggests the British public is ready to go all the way’. I sometimes struggle to reconcile my deep conviction about the nature of homosexual acts with the fact that some of my dearest friends are gay. […]
Published on
1 November 2010
Posted in Marriage & Family, Political Economy, Public Policy
If there is something we have learnt from recent elections in the UK it is that the working classes have become increasingly alienated from political life. Elections in 2009 saw two MEPs elected for the British National Party (BNP), not because of a notable increase in their support, but due to a collapse in the […]
Published on
8 September 2010
Posted in Education, Marriage & Family
Chris Bryant MP plans to introduce a bill today under the ten-minute rule attempting to make sex and relationships education (SRE) compulsory in state schools. It is rare for a ten-minute rule bill to pass onto the statute books, although since 1945 there have been sixty Acts of Parliament which began life in this way. […]
Published on
10 February 2010
A most interesting immigration case in which a judge in Tennessee granted political asylum to a German piano teacher and his family may have dented German-American bilateral relations. The family in question home-schooled its children, which is not generally permitted in Germany. The parents’ determination had had repercussions there: massive fines imposed, police intrusion into […]
Published on
16 December 2009
Posted in Marriage & Family
We are nearing Christmas, which might be even more relevant and special for families with younger children who eagerly await Christmas Day. One cannot, however, help to think of children who are not as fortunate to have a loving family. The fact that the family is structurally undermined in many Western societies is not new. […]