Momentum’s momentum doesn’t need to fizz with punch: they’ve won already.
Opponents of grammar schools, some supporters of them, a slice of the independent sector, secularists…all have reason not to be best pleased with her plans.
But her decision and other recent ones also raise the question of whether Ministers really hold sway in their own departments.
Schools in America do not teach religion, but culture and values instead.
Unfortunately, France refuses to accept that any adaptation whatsoever is necessary, and uses Laïcité as a shibboleth to justify its stubbornness.
The mayors of Nice and Cannes have been goaded into a culture war without the least clue about the culture they’re attempting to defend.
Our vote was about delivering power back to the people, and removing it from distant powerful figures. “The Donald”, on the other hand, asks the people to give him the power.
Those complaining are mainly non-Muslim, and their argument seems to amount to simply wishing that Muslim men and women held different beliefs.
Labour’s mayoral candidate put his faith at the centre of his candidacy. Do we want religion creeping back into our politics?
Every Muslim member of the Party who discussed the campaign with me understood the messages in this way – as have many, probably most, non-Muslim commentators.
This is better way of dealing with both migration and the terror threat than the patchwork measures taken so far by the EU.
The worst of the ideas associated with ‘multiculturalism’ have been pursued at a time when societal integration should have been the mantra.
There is an important campaigning role for his pro-Brexit views. Let’s hope that we see and hear a lot of him during the weeks ahead.
It will achieve next to nothing – other than enabling non-violent extremists to paint it as the British state “criminalising Shariah.”
No foreign preacher who rejects religious freedom should be given permission to enter the UK.