Category Archives: Political Issues

Secret Family Courts UK Still A Public Concern

When I began blogging I had concerns for what I had been reading about the UK Justice System in our Family Courts. I asked the question in my Bio,  ”Could this kind of thing happen in the UK?” I thought this had been tackled by Jack Straw in the last government but it seems not reading [...]

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China Is Still Persecuting Christians

Although there is reported to be enormous growth of the Christian church in China, there is still an awful lot of restrictions on Christians and even persecution. “It is recently reported that, “the Beijing church that saw more than 160 of its members arrested April 10 for meeting illegally says it will continue to hold services [...]

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$52bn US Aid & Afghans Still Dying Of Starvation

That is beside the aid from other countries including the UK- but where does it all go if it is not feeding Afghans & helping Afghans to feed themselves? No wonder there are so many doubts about why we are in Afghanistan!
“The most extraordinary failure of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan is that the expenditure [...]

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The Widening Pay Gap Between Rich & Poor UK

Deborah Hargreaves, chair of the High Pay Commission, says Britain’s fat cat elite is immune from the pain of the UK downturn. “As bankers receive their multi-million pound bonuses in the next couple of months, the contrast with stagnating average earnings will become starker.” Most of the public had no idea what top bosses were [...]

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18 Children & Not On Benefits!

It’s worth reading the surprise in some of the comments following this story that unlike so many such news’ stories in the UK this large family in the USA is self-sufficient and not on benefits!

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Legacy Of The Swinging Seventies

Forget the Swinging Sixties: It was the Seventies that saw an explosion in promiscuity, abortion and pornography - says historian, Dominic Sandbrook in the Daily Mail, 27 September, 2010 Sandbrook’s 2500 word article for the Daily Mail was adapted from his, State Of Emergency, Sandbrook claims, “The ‘Swinging Sixties’ was still quite conservative in attitude [...]

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62.5% Still Say God Created The Universe!

There is nothing like something controversial for selling books, especially on science and origins. The promotion of Stephen Hawking’s book, The Grand Design, was given higher than usual profile with reviewers and reporters reporting that Hawking had reversed his original view that God might be responsible for the creation of the universe. He now says physics [...]

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China Is Beginning to See Christianity As Good For Business

“Far from being regarded as a religious oddity, the impact of Christian-run businesses is now being studied by Chinese government officials.
The BBC report from China says, “the notion that newfound faith can inspire a workforce to increased levels of productivity is being taken seriously not only by Christian businessmen, but by China’s Communist - and [...]

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10 Babies by 10 Mothers To Cost UK Taxpayers £1.5

10 Babies by 10 Mothers going To Cost Taxpayers £1.5m. The figure was updated the following day to ‘15 children by 14 women’ by one ‘feckless father.’
News stories galore have told of single mothers getting the obligatory council house and eye watering handouts. Men get their ‘oats’ and single parents get the ‘right’ to be [...]

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Abuse Of UN Treaty Used To Deny Parents To Home School Children

Although formulated with good intentions for the protection of children and assured by proponents of the treaty there would be no threat to home schooling it has been interpreted by governments so as to be a threat to home schooling families. Labour’s interpretation of the treaty was seen to be a threat to Home Schooling [...]

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