Well done to the Sunday Times for telling us what’s really going on in our university campuses. A piece in the Sunday Times on 30 June entitled, “Mob rule is crushing free speech on campus” (subscription required), showed how moderate conservative voices in our universities are being routinely shut down by the new ‘illiberal liberalism’

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he… would be justified in silencing mankind.” John Stuart Mill, On Liberty[1] One of the obvious phenomena in UK society over the last few years

Well done to the Telegraph for reporting yesterday (4 July) on the danger to freedom of expression in our universities caused by student unions’ attempts to ban pro-life and Christian societies from having a platform owing to “hypersensitivity.” David Isaac, chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), said that universities must not allow

Yesterday (3 July) the UK Court of Appeal reached an important and welcome decision in favour of freedom of expression in the case of Felix Ngole vs. University of Sheffield. Felix Ngole was a mature student in social work at the University. He was expelled from his course in 2016 following an anonymous complaint to

The “No Outsiders” lesson programme has been at the centre of considerable controversy in the news recently, with parents protesting outside the Parkfield community school in Birmingham which adopted the programme. Below is a reflection given recently by the Revd. Mike Smith to the National Association of Head Teachers’ Conference about the “No Outsiders” programme

I would like to share here three of the great legal declarations pertaining to freedom of thought, freedom of religion, and freedom of expression in the UK. We need constantly to remind ourselves of these great legal principles, because what has been clear for over a decade is that these freedoms are now under serious

I recently read the Proslogion of Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, written in 1077-78, together with the written criticism of Anselm’s argument by Gaunilo, a monk of Marmoutiers, and Anselm’s subsequent reply. In Gaunilo and Anselm’s correspondence over the Proslogion we see a wonderful example of how to argue graciously — an example which has a

I’m not generally a fan of Channel 4 or its ethos. However, I was pleased by its ‘Britain’s Most Historic Towns: Plantagenet Canterbury,’ broadcast on Saturday. Part of a series (actually a second series) in which each episode takes an historic town and examines a particular period of British history in which it played a

According to Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109, the existence of God is proven from his being ‘that-than-which-nothing-greater-can-be-thought.’ He sets forth this proof in his work, the Proslogion, written in 1077-78.[1] I recently had the joy of reading it in Anselm, Brian Davies, and G. R. Evans, The Major Works, Oxford World’s Classics

Last week I commented on a beautiful passage by the second-century Christian theologian Irenaeus (c. 180 A.D.) showing his belief in both the full humanity and the full divinity of Christ. One of the things that comes across loud and clear in that passage is that, for Irenaeus, Christian faith is biblical faith. Before we