Media Addiction, Children and Education
MOVEMENT FOR CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY Discussion Paper Alan Storkey Of what value is an idol, since a man has carved it? Or an image which teaches lies? For he who makes it trusts in his own creation…
Blog
12 pieces filed under Blog.
2019
2018
Cambridge Analytica/Facebook/Russia
Today there is a vast system persuading us to buy things. It is already corrupt in the sense that it uses psychological techniques, forms of bribery, convinces people to buy things they do not need…
Don’t let Communist Russia get away with it.
Could I say, as Foreign Secretary for Overseas how completely disgusting it is that Putin is poisoning our Russians. Mr Skruple is an honoured citizen among us, one of the people we want to welcome…
My Speech to the Nation
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I have been asked by Teresa to speak to you about Brexit, and I am happy to oblige. It is a privilege. Indeed, privilege to be an Englishman, and to vote for myself and…
2017
Party Leaders, Winning, Emptiness and Popularity.
The Conservative Party needs a leader. Since Thatcher, long-lived and falsely successful leadership (North Sea Oil and selling off the State’s family silver) we have had John Major, William Hague…
Good Morning, troopers,
It is exciting that you have turned out in such large numbers and have managed to finish breakfast by this unearthly hour. My first hope for Brexit is that the Full English breakfast will be returned…
My dear Donald
It was good and positive to see you at the podium again, exercising strong leadership and speaking to the world. I see you were wearing a red tie. It is a good move. I have been wearing a lot of red…
The Brexit Negotiations – Why May does not matter.
The central claim in the Conservative election campaign is that May, alone among the leaders, can bargain a good Brexit deal. The election was called to give her a mandate and we should vote for her…
2015
Sataday mornin market.
Michael were a bit pissed, an he peeled orf Freda’s arm. “I’m just gooin t’maarkit,” he say. The pigs, they were a screechin and the Auctioneer were rattlin on as he go over the stones ter the ring…
The Moneychangers in the Temple
I have been asleep most of my life in relation to the level of control exercised by the Right in western politics. Just doing work on the United States at the end of WW2. Roosevelt had fought the…
Autumn Statement Review
This is, if you want it, another review of the Autumn Statement. Osborne is giving away £6.2 bn more next year, half on tax credits. It is a slight anti-austerity move. His basis for so doing is an…
Self-righteousness and the Council Tax
Jesus’ life and teaching towers over human history and politics. He is the light that shows us what is going on in clarity and true perspective. First, we listen to him and then we see, darkly at…