I should thank Mark Pritchard MP who, along with Cristine Odone, has given me a fantastic idea for this new pledge: These people are obsessed with being martyrs, so why not lend them a hand?
Tag: culture wars
Cristina Odone: drop the martyr act
If you haven’t heard that St. Martins-in-the-Fields stopped Cristina Odone from using their pulpit to rant about how religious people are persecuted last week, you simply haven’t been paying attention. She was banging on about it on the Today programme and now has a column in the Observer saying the same thing: When a Christian… Continue reading Cristina Odone: drop the martyr act
Why does the Oxford Union think that freedom of speech only applies to fascists?
One thing I didn’t realise regarding the latest Oxford Union debacle is that this comes just a month after those heroic defenders of free speech denied Norman Finklestein a platform to criticise Israel: Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians surely cannot be described as balanced by any stretch of the imagination. The Biblical injunction of “an… Continue reading Why does the Oxford Union think that freedom of speech only applies to fascists?