Martin Parsons is currently director of faculty of the UK’s newest sixth form college in Lowestoft, Suffolk. He has a PhD in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations and has written a major academic book on this subject. He is currently writing a further book on Conservativism and Christianity and is a member of the parliamentary candidates […]
By Martin Parsons. 200 years ago, just after 5pm on 11th May, Prime Minister Spencer Percival was assassinated in the House of Commons. He was a Tory Prime Minister, little heard of today. Yet there are important lessons from his life that are highly relevant today in a similar age of austerity. Life and career […]
I first began teaching A level 25 years ago. What we taught then was far broader and deeper than any A level syllabus now. After returning to UK teaching six years ago after more than a decade overseas my overwhelming impression has been that A level standards have fallen significantly, I was until recently an […]
Yesterday, as Paul Goodman has outlined on Tory Diary, Trevor Phillips, Chairman of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) compared Christians who object to the erosion of freedom of conscience in recent equalities legislation to Muslims trying to impose sharia on Britain. Mr Phillips who has made a career in promoting equality and diversity […]
By Martin Parsons In the days following Christmas the Christian church has traditionally remembered the visit of the wise men to Jesus. The word magi is in fact a Persian loan word indicating their origin in either what is now Iran or western Afghanistan. The whole story reminds us that Christianity far from being a […]