Culture Wars

When good people do bad things

RECENTLY I had just delivered a pile of The Light newspapers to a shopkeeper, ‘Janet’, who displays them on her counter for customers to take, when an elderly woman came in. As soon as she caught sight of the papers she erupted in sheer fury. ‘What on earth are you doing promoting that awful paper?’ she demanded […]

Despair of the ignored Cornish churchgoers (and non-churchgoers)

‘The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell’ – William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army SOMEONE once said ‘the Church of England exists for those who don’t go’, or words to that effect. I’ve […]

Small boat returns almost non-existent, Home Office admits

THE recent focus on the Channel crisis has revealed a striking statistic: only 1 per cent of small boat arrivals since 2020 have been sent back to their home country. We knew that the number of enforced returns had dropped to a paltry level (see the chart below), but this recent revelation vividly highlights the Home Office’s […]

The climate scaremongers: The Wildlife Trusts go woke

THE Wildlife Trusts organisation exemplifies how wokeness has taken over so many of our British institutions. The movement began life in 1912 as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves. In its current incarnation, it acts as an umbrella group for the 46 Wildife Trusts in the UK, nearly all county-based, which have a […]

COP28 achieves zero, as usual

COP28 has finished with the usual backslapping, tears and claims of a historic, planet saving, landmark deal. As usual, though, when you delve into the detail of the agreement, you find that it is mostly smoke and mirrors. The main so-called achievement is the mention of the need to move away from fossil fuels, the first time this has […]

The Bible: Read, learn and digest

THE Prayer Book Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent is a powerful spur to the Christian discipline of personal Bible reading.  The Collect draws on the Apostle Paul’s statement in Romans chapter 15 verse 4, which begins the Epistle reading for today: ‘Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through […]

Migration Watch’s summary of the government’s miserable month

This article appears in the latest newsletter of Migration Watch UK.  FOR almost a month now, immigration has dominated the headlines. Here’s a recap of what has happened: November 13: Home Secretary Suella Braverman was sacked for writing an article about in the Times that had not been cleared by Downing Street. She was replaced by […]

Angry about everything? Join the Simmers

THE Simmers are simmering. The Simmers are being ignored and unheard, are unrepresented by any political party, fed up, angry, disappointed, worried by the curious lack of common sense in their daily news, critical of the upsurge of strange maladies unknown in their childhood, astonished by the savagery evident in parts of social media, and […]