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  • Lapido Media: Bring on the theologians, Mr Cameron
    July 20th, 2015
    David Cameron’s ‘most important speech yet on extremism’ has now been delivered.
     
    With terror waiting in the wings, it appears tragically to have added very little at all to the junk thinking that has got us to such an impasse. 
     
    Platitudes piled up about ‘values’, ‘equality’, and ‘beliefs’ do not comprise an ethic to live by, as is already amply demonstrated.
  • Telegraph: We must stop indoctrinating boys in feminist ideology
    July 20th, 2015

    On Wednesday, the Daily Mail reported that a school in Oxford has become the first to introduce “Good Lad” workshops, in which boys are singled out for sessions that teach them about “the scale of sexual harassment and violence aimed at female students” and how they must stand up for women's rights.

    The workshops are the latest in a mushrooming series of initiatives in which ideologically-driven activists are being invited into schools, driven by the belief that boys need to be re-educated to prevent them from becoming a threat to women.

  • Committee News: Petitions Site Launch
    July 20th, 2015
    The House of Commons and the Government today launch the petitions website:
     
     
    For the first time ever, members of the public will be able to electronically petition the House of Commons. Any British citizen or UK resident will be able to start or sign a petition, raising concerns about issues that either the Government or the Commons are responsible for.
  • BBC: Cameron to unveil plan to tackle Islamist extremism
    July 20th, 2015
    Prime Minister David Cameron will vow to tackle "failures of integration" when he unveils a five-year plan to combat home-grown Islamist extremism.
  • Mail: Freedom of Information laws at mercy of 'biased' Whitehall panel
    July 20th, 2015
    Campaigners warned of a Whitehall stitch-up last night over plans to limit Freedom of Information laws which have exposed Government scandals.
     
    A panel set up to decide the future of the law is staffed by civil servants and former ministers – sparking claims of ‘bias’ – will consider making it easier for councils, Government departments and quangos to reject requests for information.
  • Schools Week: Reporting on students’ religious views will squash classroom debate
    July 19th, 2015
    The new powers of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act asks teachers to report on their students’ religious views as a matter of national security. This will squash open debate, free speech and political dissent, making schools fearful places for many pupils.
  • Archbishop Cranmer: Tim Farron's Christian faith becomes an object of media scorn
    July 19th, 2015
    There are plenty of people who think that you shouldn’t mix faith and politics. For some, such as the National Secular Society, they have made it a mission to keep the two as far apart as possible. But as we’ve seen repeatedly over the last few days, the newly-elected leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, is quite determined to make sure that, for him at least, the two should be able to come together without conflict or contradiction.
  • BBC: UK will help destroy Islamic State, David Cameron tells US
    July 19th, 2015

    Britain is committed to working with the US to destroy the "caliphate" set up by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, the prime minister has said.

  • Express: Police warnings over state guardians
    July 19th, 2015
    The SNP's controversial state guardian scheme is facing its biggest ever crisis after police revealed that vulnerable children are being left in the hands of abusers due to red tape.
  • Guardian: Universities will be allowed to host extremist speakers – within limits
    July 17th, 2015
    University campus meetings which give a platform to extremist speakers will only be allowed to go ahead if they are to be directly challenged by somebody with opposing views at the same event, under compromise counter-extremism proposals agreed by the government.