Matthew Carr's Blog, page 63
April 23, 2014
The Tony Blair 10-point Guide to Fighting Islamic Extremism
Hello World. I’m Tony Blair, the highest-paid speaker in the world and the Middle East ‘Peace Envoy’ and I’d like to share my thoughts with you on how to combat the threat of ‘radical Islam’. Because this threat is very … Continue reading →
April 22, 2014
Who Are We? We’re Christians!
Given the shallowness and political opportunism of David Cameron’s manufactured conversion, his suggestion that Britons should ‘ be more confident about our status as a Christian country’ has provoked a surprisingly vigorous debate, with critics and defenders rising up to … Continue reading →
April 19, 2014
Jesus on the Mainline
Easter is a time for special reflection in the Christian faith, a time not just for hot cross buns and chocolate eggs, but an occasion to ponder the meaning of Christ’s sacrifice and its relevance to one’s own life. David … Continue reading →
April 18, 2014
RIP Gabriel García Marquez
Like millions of people who read his wonderful books, I was sorry to hear that Gabriel García Marquez had ‘ stretched his leg and gone to the other neighborhood’, as the Spanish expression pithily puts it. I knew that he … Continue reading →
April 17, 2014
Whatever Happened to the Future?
There was a time when the future seemed like something you could rely on, at least if you were lucky enough to live in the ‘developed’ world; when you could look at your life twenty or thirty years down the … Continue reading →
April 16, 2014
Does Work Make You Free?
Work is good for you. We know this because our politicians never cease to remind us of the fact. Whether singing the virtues of ‘hard-working families’, or introducing punitive benefits caps and sanctions in an attempt to ‘get people back … Continue reading →
April 13, 2014
Why Has the Ministry of Defence Tried to Ban Its Own Book?
Attempts by democratic governments to ban books rarely work out well. If the book is banned on grounds of public morality (Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Tropic of Cancer), then the writer nearly always wins in the end and the government that … Continue reading →
