News and Opinion

Posted on behalf of Mike Burden: How timely it is that Leicester Secular Society welcomes Anne Marie Waters ( One Law for All ) to speak at Secular Hall next Sunday ( 28th April 6.30pm ), Having watched tonight's horrific Panorama on Shari'a Councils in Britain .  We need to know more. Where are the Shari'a councils in Leicester? Are they open to the public? Who are the judges? Who holds them to account? We need to know.  The terrible injustices and inequalities handed out to the women in the programme demolishes any idea that Islamic Law has any place in our Society.   Support Anne Marie, a brave woman, who is at the forefront in opposing this evil and inhumane form of 'justice'.

Posted on behalf of Mark Lucas ‘... nowhere in the Bible is the word democracy mentioned.   Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians, to take counsel together their purpose is not (or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit – something which may be quite different.’   M. Thatcher, 21st May 1988 So there we have it in a nutshell:   the thoughts of the Great Iron Female Leader.   Sod the majority (illegally if it was up to her).   She was not in Parliament because of democracy, but in spite of democracy.   She quickly lost the blessing of the majority, but that matters not one iota because she has ghosts on her side. As for that other pillar of the Church and the Party – the Family – the evidence shows us that she and her family were either unchristian, hypocritical (a mortal sin the last time I looked), or incompetent.   According to Prof. Bernard Crick, grocer daddy Roberts was a well-known ‘toucher-upper‘ of nu