The NHS ‘safe sex’ video is tawdry and sad
You don’t need to have read George Orwell, brilliant writer that he was, to know that the meaning and usage of words is critical. Since Orwell’s time there have been many examples of Newspeak, the...
View ArticleMurdoch is to blame for the News of the World’s moral decline
Last week I was in Scarborough on holiday. Out of curiosity, and for the first (and last) time, I packed the News of the World to take with me. All week its defiant front page stared at me until I...
View ArticleThe Spanish case is shocking: but we cruelly remove children from...
There are some things I often just don’t want to write about (though I know I have to) when they come up: the most obvious one being stories to do with clerical sex abuse (particularly when I know that...
View ArticleMark Thompson vetoed a statue of George Orwell outside the BBC as a...
Some time ago, Joan Bakewell approached the BBC’s director-general, Mark Thompson, to set before him a proposal, backed by a number of journalistic and broadcasting notables, to erect a statue of...
View ArticleOrwell was right: pornography has become the opium of the Masses
Recently there has been a flurry of comment about pornography, all of it taking roughly the same point of view, which is quite remarkable, considering the usually irremediable plurality of opinion on...
View ArticleDoes this Government believe that ‘mothers at home matter’?
There was a letter to the editor of the Telegraph last Friday which I read with some interest. Written by MP Elizabeth Truss, Education and Child Care Minister, it had the heading “Nursery standards”....
View ArticleCaring for the poor is natural Catholic territory – let’s not give it up
The question of poverty deserves to get a wider airing than it does. So it is good to see that Father Timothy Radcliffe devoted his recent Romero Lecture to the subject, as reported in this paper. Are...
View ArticleAre there any Communist philanthropists out there?
I happened to be awake at 3.32am on Tuesday morning, so I tuned in to the World Service. It was part two of a programme, introduced by Alvin Hall, called Misers, Bling and the Money Thing. What was...
View ArticleVoyeurs looking at leaked celebrity photos are not simply sinful
How much do you value your privacy? Probably a great deal. Consider all the things that you would not want to happen to yourself. You would not want anyone to read your letters. You would not want...
View ArticleThe war against ISIS continues in the Middle East, and the war of words...
The news that soldiers of fortune from Britain and America are now active in Syria fighting ISIS in alliance with the Kurds was the lead story on Channel Four News last night. It also was a lead story...
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The age of falling in love with the revolution is over
Whatever happened to revolutionary romanticism? Once upon a time there were beautiful young women who devoted themselves not just to Left-wing causes but to Left-wing men, leaving behind their wealth...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s magazine?
Cover story… Cardinal Müller could answer the dubia, but will he get the chance? asks Fr Mark Drew More comment… Filipe d’Avillez asks how will the Catholic, pro-life new head of the UN deal with the...
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