One of the things about working at the party conferences is that you often find yourself too busy to actually do the conference itself. So it was that I didn’t get a chance to visit the Conservative Party exhibition until Tuesday afternoon. I was therefore very surprised to find, almost as soon as I walked… Continue reading The Conservatives and Scientology
Category: culture wars
Dawkins’ influence over party politics
The Labour Humanists have been quite high profile at this conference and have been actively promoting their fringe meeting with A.C. Grayling on Monday. A year old, the group is mainly campaigning against faith schools. My erstwhile Doughty Street sparring partner Kris Brown is their Vice Chair and has been running around all week. This… Continue reading Dawkins’ influence over party politics
Ming Campbell outed as Georgist secularist human being!
Odd last day of conference for me as I got to bookend Ming’s speech. I was in the fundraising video they showed at the start, having agreed to be a prop for Greg Stone to talk about the value of online advertising. In retrospect, it looked rather like a Children in Need appeal with a… Continue reading Ming Campbell outed as Georgist secularist human being!