I have just read an intersting cable that was leaked on Thursday speculating on who would replace Gordon Brown and listing his possible successors. It praises David Miliband and James Purnell but contains a damning assessment of Ed Balls, and Harriet Ha

To defend the Church's role is to defend faith as a whole The Queen is right - our national religion is a force for unity and a channel of peace Divine touch: Michelangelo's 'God Creates Adam' in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Photo: ALAMY By Charles

To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to diff

Two newspapers report recent remarks by Trevor Phillips head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, at a public debate on 8 February. Christians who want to be exempt from equality legislation are like Muslims trying to impose sharia on Britain, Tr

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Often in government a policy surfaces from nowhere and comes to have more impact than those that attract a mountain of words in the media. Harold Wilson's introduction of the Open University is one such example; his most life-enhancing policy as Prime Mi