Schools in England are to teach students how to Speak Truth to Power, tackling issues like slavery, political violence, repression and religious freedom. Ironic, hypocritical even, in a week when a leaked report suggests that the government is about to implement a national register of faith leaders, who will have to undergo government specified training before being allowed to talk about their faith outside of their places of worship. Totalitarian control of religion by diktat and Orwellian reprogramming of believers... Read more

Parents, it seems, are back in the picture. With the government increasingly assuming a supernanny role, teachers are expected to deliver everything from policing packed lunches to teaching hand washing. Enough became enough recently when teachers came worrying close to having to teach children to clean their teeth. Exactly where is the line between nurturing the children of feckless parents and interfering in how caring parents (the vast majority) choose to raise, feed and care for their children? A new... Read more

As the government assumes an increasingly quasi-parental role in education and as the western world tightens its embrace of liberal secularism, what is the role of Christian parents? What should be taught in schools and how much influence should parents have? Is there a place any longer for expressions of religious faith in the public square? Education doesn’t, of course, begin when a child starts school. Education begins at the moment of birth and the Bible is clear that the... Read more

On 11 September, the Assisted Dying Bill may well become UK law. The speed with which it has been rushed through to a Second Reading in Parliament, the fact that the vote will take place on a day when most MPs are in their constituencies and that it will happen just after the summer recess, suggests an agenda. The aim of the Bill is to legalise assisted suicide by allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to those who only have... Read more