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May 2019

May 27, 2019

Op-ed: There’s only one guest of honour

Trump was very excited about his approaching trip to Japan last Thursday. Prime Minister Shinzo...

May 18, 2019

‘Islamophobia’ definition poses a threat to free speech in the UK

THERE are 'surprising levels' of agreement among many Christians and secularists that the proposed adoption...

May 14, 2019

Gays won’t go to hell, says Australia’s evangelical Prime Minister

Scott Morrison, above, Australia’s first Pentecostal Prime Minister, has been forced to express an opinion...

May 13, 2019

Mike Pence tells Christian students to stand strong against ridicule

LAST Saturday America's God-besotted Vice President Mike Pence delivered a commencement address at Liberty University...

May 12, 2019

Anti-gay firebrand gets a black eye over proposed ‘Jesus chicken’ law

AFTER his wife abandoned him for a woman in 2014, Texas-based Jonathan Saenz, above, abruptly...

May 09, 2019

UK PM told to impose same-sex marriage on Northern Ireland

SARA Canning, above, the partner of the murdered Northern Ireland journalist Lyra McKee has urged...

May 06, 2019

‘Ian Paisley would be aghast’: lesbian wins N Ireland council seat

WHEN the notoriously anti-gay Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) announced that it had chosen lesbian Alison...

April 2019

April 26, 2019

House of Lords members received abuse over LGBT school lessons

THIS week the UK House of Lords backed the government's new LGBT-inclusive guidance on compulsory...

April 22, 2019

Jesus? Forget that so-and-so. Easter’s about the US economy, stupid!

PRESIDENT Trump made Easter all about him and the US economy at the weekend –...

April 20, 2019

Op-ed: Brexit – what would Jesus do?

I DONT regard the evidence advanced for the existence of God or Jesus as being...

April 08, 2019

US-based hate groups pour millions in ‘dark money’ into Europe

WE'VE been aware for years that US-based Christian extremists have been funding far-right groups in...

April 01, 2019

Op-ed: Log Cabin Republicans have a queer view of equality

Log Cabin Republicans are a deluded group who work to persuade their fellow Republicans not...

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Brexit – a ‘shambles’ & ‘a mortal sin’ – is put before a Higher Power

Lord Judge of Draycote, above, the former Lord Chief Justice, said in a church service...

March 26, 2019

Anti-extremist castigates Labour Party over ‘Islamophobia’ definition

MAAJID Nawaz, a British anti-extremist campaigner who was recently the victim of a vicious racist...

March 25, 2019

Marching for women’s rights is ‘un-Islamic’ say Pakistan lawmakers

PROVINCIAL politicians in northwestern Pakistan are really angry that thousands of women across Pakistan took...

March 14, 2019

Did a Conservative MP just blame God for cocking up Brexit?

FOR the life of me I cannot understand what Christian Member of Parliament Dame Caroline...

March 11, 2019

God, Brexit and Theresa May: a catastrophic combination

The Bank of England announced that voting to leave the European Union has cost Britain...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Evangelicals who don’t support Donald Trump are ‘morons’

TRUMP, as the whole world knows, has a penchant for surrounding himself with Christian crackpots,...

February 07, 2019

Gay atheist Polish Mayor is out to diminish power of Catholic Church

GIVEN that Poland is overwhelmingly Catholic, and thus fanatically homophobic, it must have come as...

February 03, 2019

A National Day of Prayer is called for to break Brexit deadlock

THE First and Second World Wars were halted after Kings George V and VI called...

February 02, 2019

Iraqi writer proposes a world-wide ban of religion in politics

SALAM Sarhan, a writer who has lived in London since 1991, this week came up...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

The War of the Noses: Malaysia comes out the loser

MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, 93, above, sees nothing offensive about calling Jews 'hook-nosed'....

January 21, 2019

Prayers have no place in Parliament, say a number of UK MPs

FOR at least 450 years Anglican prayers have kicked off proceedings in Parliament, but a...

January 17, 2019

How many Bibles does a US Governor need to be sworn in?

TALK about over-egging the pudding. Or gilding the lily. Or laying it on thick. Or...

January 03, 2019

Trump is delighted that Brazil has a demented new President

Brazil's deranged new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, above, has hit the ground running ... towards...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Protests as right-wing lunatic plans to teach ‘Catholic values’ in Italy

STEVE Bannon – the man credited with masterminding Trump's election success – sparked anger when...

December 28, 2018

Evangelist Billy Graham not mentioned in ‘Most Admired Men’ poll

A possible reason for that is that he is "in Heaven", having relocated to God's...

December 27, 2018

Op-ed: Santa is nothing but a sinister gateway to preposterous beliefs

Donald Trump and his consort Melania of that ilk took part in a White House...

December 26, 2018

Trump gets an attack of the smarts about Jesus, because it’s Yuletide

He may not have the intellect to run a bath, let alone a country, but...

December 19, 2018

No need to hex Trump, says witch who claims he’s self-destructing

Donald Trump's aptitude for annoying the hell out of people has reached into the world...