Category Archives: Morality in Public

Published on
11 November 2020

We Must Stop Confusing Political and Moral Issues

Posted in British Politics, Ethics, Human Life, Morality in Public, Public Policy, Social Commentary

It seems every political issue has come increasingly to resemble a moral ‘rumble in the jungle’. The latest issue to fall victim to moral pugilists is the Free School Meals initiative pressed by footballer Marcus Rashford. During the first lockdown Rashford petitioned the government to offer ‘free school meals’ to Britain’s most disadvantaged children – […]

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Published on
24 October 2020

A Recent Contrived Controversy

Posted in Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conscience, Ethics, Human Life, Marriage & Family, Moral Philosophy, Morality in Public, Same-Sex Marriage

Recent comments made by Pope Francis about same-sex unions have raised quite a stir. In a new documentary ‘Francesco’, about the present Pontiff’s life, Pope Francis says, ‘homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They’re children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or be […]

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Published on
12 December 2019

‘Oh Captain! My Captain!’: The West’s Dearth of Leadership

Posted in British Politics, Christianity, Culture, Liberty, Morality in Public, Virtue

Democracy is seen by most people, much of the time, as one of the brightest jewels in the crown of Western culture. Unlike the slavery-based ancient Athenian democracy it is the product of assertion of the freedom and dignity inherent in every human being, and as a result on 12 December every UK citizen over […]

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Published on
28 February 2019

Newman’s Age

Posted in Christianity, Church of England, Conscience, Freedom, Liberalism, Liberty, Morality in Public, Uncategorized

In the coming year Pope Francis seems now likely to canonise the English Cardinal, John Henry Newman, completing a first step taken by Pope Benedict XVI who beatified him (declared him ‘Blessed’) in 2010. The Pope Emeritus has often referred to Newman in the same vein as his fellow-countryman St. Thomas More as figures who, […]

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Published on
9 June 2016

Is There Such a Thing as Speciesism?

Posted in Ethics Online, Human Life, Morality in Public, Philosophy, United States of America

The recent killing of a gorilla at a zoo in Cincinnati has provoked a wildly disproportionate social-media reaction. In some widely viewed footage of the occurrence, a four-year-old boy falls into the gorilla’s enclosure and is subsequently grabbed and dragged through water by the animal. Alarmed by understandably loud shouting from the boy’s mother and […]

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Published on
17 May 2016

Overstepping the line, or the invasive role of the media

Posted in British Politics, Ethics in the Media, Morality in Public, Social Commentary

It seems as though last week was ‘gaffe week’ in Britain. First there was David Cameron describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as ‘fantastically corrupt’. At a reception in Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, the Prime Minister was caught on camera speaking informally to the Queen, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Speaker of the House of Commons. […]

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Published on
8 May 2016

Racism in the Twenty-First Century

Posted in Africa, Education, Europe, Human Rights, Morality in Public, Social Commentary

Is there such thing as ‘reverse racism’? May statements be deemed racist only if uttered by white people? There has been a growing debate around these questions in universities and academic circles more widely in recent months. The student radicals who now occupy positions of power within their unions throughout the United Kingdom seem to […]

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