As you can read on today's ConHome frontpage Nick Clegg is using a speech to attack Tory policy on marriage and family life. 10 Downing Street interpret the speech as an attempt by Nick Clegg to quell unrest within his party after last week's EU veto. David Cameron's advisers fear that one consequence of the EU issue will be that progress on other Coalition business - unrelated to Europe - is likely, at least for a time, to become more difficult.
In the News
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December 18th, 2011
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December 18th, 2011
A COMPROMISE deal that would legalise gay marriage in Scotland but ban the ceremonies from being held in churches is being considered by the Scottish Government, Scotland on Sunday has learned.
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December 17th, 2011
Charlie Falconer’s sham ‘Commission on Assisted Dying’ is due to report on 5 January 2012, over a year after it first launched in November 2009.
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December 17th, 2011
Lawyers are planning a "class action" on behalf of 23 families who contacted them with "shocking" claims of indignities and the most basic failings in care.
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December 17th, 2011
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (BosNewsLife)-- Saudi security forces have detained 42 Ethiopian Christians at a prayer gathering in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the latest in a series of raids on worship meetings, a rights official said Saturday, December 17.
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December 17th, 2011
The Prime Minister does God. At least, that's the gist of his first major speech on religion. Actually, the interesting thing is that a Tory Prime Minister feels that he has to make the point that he is a Christian. Other than Michael Howard, who was Jewish, most other Tory leaders could have assumed we’d take it as read that he or she was more or less CofE, including Mrs Thatcher, who was, of course, a Methodist.
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December 16th, 2011
Christmas is always a busy time down at this blog’s favourite hub of moderation’n’tolerance, the East London Mosque, controlled by the extremist Islamic Forum of Europe. The punters have to be saved from what Mahera Ruby, the head of the IFE’s women’s section, called the “pagan myth of Santa Claus.” What’s that, Mahera? You mean Santa doesn’t really exist?
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December 16th, 2011
Health watchdogs are drawing up guidelines to help them deal with potential accusations of assisted suicide against doctors.
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December 16th, 2011
Guidance on how to deal with complaints against doctors who may have assisted in suicides will be published by the General Medical Council.
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December 15th, 2011
The Senate should be commended for criminalizing same-sex marriage in Nigeria. Of a special note is the statement credited to the Senate President, David Mark, when he reportedly called the bluff-off some developed nations who are trying to meddle in our internal affairs on the account of their grants to Nigeria. According to our Distinguished Senator, if such countries are not comfortable with us on criminalizing same sex-marriage in Nigeria, and they want to tie their aid or grants to it, they may keep their grants. On this same occasion of the Germany Ambassador's visit, the Senate President further remarked that Nigeria as a nation should also be in a position to be giving out grants and not continue to be a receiver provided we have been able to manage our affairs properly, maybe tackling corruption more effectively and reducing wastages in the running of governments at the Federal, State and local levels.