One cannot imagine the anguish felt by the families who have lost loved ones in the downing of the Malaysian airliner. This time it is known what happened to the Malaysian plane; it did not vanish, it fell from the sky and the graphic images of the carnage of bodies and wreckage are everywhere on the […]

Now that Dominic Grieve and Ken Clarke have left the government, the Tory Party had set out on its reformist agenda for Europe without resistance from the heart of its own grip on power. They are buoyed up by the knowledge that the public is irritated by the pontifications of the European Court of Human […]

This Blog has had more to say about the dangers of this cancer within our economy than  almost  any other subject. There is not a lot to add. Now running at an average of over 10% across the country, this is unsustainable and will lead to a very hard landing unless action is taken now. So […]

Cabinet reshuffles cause political excitement and in the Westminster village are high drama. Elsewhere they are boring, irrelevant or pointless. Small ones made necessary because of a minor scandal or an early retirement, cause just enough of a ripple to drive the ten o’clock news. Big ones and the one now in progress is as […]

The Church of England has made a big advance in finally approving the notion that women can and should become Bishops. This has brought widespread rejoicing among its dwindling followers, who hope that this move into the real world may cause their numbers to expand. Meanwhile concessions have had to be made to the traditionalist  wing, […]

As predicted by this Blog and countless others, Lady Butler-Sloss’s position quickly became untenable and she has stood down from leading the critical inquiry into paedophiles in power. This was the right decision, taken with great dignity. One can only wonder at the thinking in the Home Office that imagined her appointment would work. Visit Website

Germany has won the World Cup and done so with considerable style and without any controversy. They arrived. They played. They triumphed. The Germans had won before as West Germany, but this was the first time since re-unification. For those of us who grew up in the terrible violence of WWII, when a very different kind […]

This cycle of violence, for so long the backdrop to life in Israel, produces much suffering and no resolution. It should stop. In the current contest Israel has the upper hand with a military superiority which is overwhelming. Fully backed by public opinion, the government has lost patience with Hamas and intends to pound it into impotence. […]

This blog has many times been in conflict with the Evangelical theology of the former archbishop, but Lord Carey’s change of heart over the issue is  welcome and courageous. When hope is abandoned, the illness is terminal, the pain and suffering unbearable and two doctors in agreement with the wishes of the patient, it is wholly un-Christian to […]

This is going to get very nasty. However shocked the British nation thought it was over phone hacking and celebrity sex crimes, will be as nothing to the revulsion which will become the pervading public emotion as details begin to emerge of what public figures, churchmen, MPs, civil servants and even ministers got up to with […]