A slightly provocative press column by Andrew Brown (Church Times), pointing out that safeguarding as purely "outside process" is also problematic, because it becomes a tick box exercise: W… (View Post)

It's an elephant-on-a-toadstool article, with about 2 or 3 bits of anecdata and world-shaking conclusions. I think it's just what happens when the writer is prematurely 86. (View Post)

I think it is quite likely that a new generation will be doing exactly the same things. Consider that the ideology of the Hegseths and the Millers promotes women as being consumables. Those are value… (View Post)

As the owner of the most notorious Mandelson nickname, which I still say is accurate as his life IS a fractal, I always had him down as a manipulator, and skated the edge of legality, and probably th… (View Post)

Is it fair to say that it was personal ambition that got Mandelson? He ended up wanting to move with the "international rich" (as Alan Clark used to term them) and thought that he was more … (View Post)