News Round-Up
28 April 2025
by Toby Young
Here Comes the Politics of Kindness
28 April 2025
by Will Jones
The persecution of Nigeria's Christians by Islamising Muslims is medieval in its horror, says Tom Goodenough. "Villages are surrounded in the dead of night by bandits who rape and kill the inhabitants. No one is spared."
What's the true story behind the Hampshire school that 'banned Easter'? That it really has side-lined Christianity and now worships at the altar of the new state religion of diversity instead, says Steven Tucker.
Diarmaid McCulloch recently claimed the British Empire "invented" Muslim homophobia in the 1800s. How can that be, wonders Steven Tucker, when Islam had been putting gay people to death for over a thousand years?
Last week, 20 officers broke into a Quaker Meeting House and arrested six women. Was this another crackdown on free speech, like the parents arrested for criticising their child's school? Not so fast, says Ben Pile.
Politics professor James Alexander says the liberal order that we cherish is incapable of defending itself without a sense of common purpose and that can only be provided by the Christian religion.
An NHS hospital is being sued after it hauled a popular nurse over the coals for calling a 6ft transgender paedophile "Mr" when discussing a catheter with a doctor – despite him lunging at her and calling her a "n****".
Rev Bernard Randall was sacked, branded a "safeguarding risk" and suspended by the Church of England for six years – all for telling pupils at his CofE school they didn't have to accept LGBT ideology. This is his story.
A Christian school worker who was dismissed after sharing social media posts criticising LGBT teaching at her son's school has won a key Court of Appeal battle related to her dismissal.
TV presenter and priest Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of his church after doing an Elon Musk 'salute' at a pro-life rally in what he said was clearly intended as a joke.
Jordan Peterson should make his mind up about Christianity, critics say. Prof James Alexander disagrees: he's a profound Jungian explorer who wants to help a secularised world see why Christianity still matters.
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