A Muslim teacher on trial in Leeds, England, is said to have divorced his crippled wife without her knowledge so he could maintain his entitlement to her disability compensation. Khalil Kazi then married a second wife in Morocco, but neglected to inform his first wife Meimuna Kazi. His deceit was discovered only after [...]

John Attarian was an atheist and free-market libertarian until he wrote his doctoral thesis on Ayn Rand’s economic thought, which posits a view of human nature unable to account for the achievements of Western civilisation.  He accepted the supernatural and soon became a Christian.  Then he read a volume of the Marquis de Sade’s writings [...]

Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu believes that Britain’s social cohesion and sense of common purpose have disappeared in recent decades.   The nation, he argues, has lost the “big vision” that was evident in welfare-state social programmes of the 1940s.
That big vision was mainly the product of William Temple, Richard Tawney, and William Beveridge, three [...]