Martin In The Margins

Monday, 30 April 2007

A brave attempt to define British identity

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You have to admire his pluck. After his controversial intervention in the veil debate last year, Leader of the Commons Jack Straw has moved ...
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A different opinion on Turkish secularism

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Matt Yglesias has a slightly different take on supporting secularism in Turkey (via Andrew Sullivan ). He argues that Western liberals shoul...

More encouraging news from the Middle East

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Following yesterday's massive rally in Turkey in support of secularism, today's Guardian carries more good new s from the Middle Ea...
Sunday, 29 April 2007

Unaggressive secularism?

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This looks encouraging. According to the BBC , today 'hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Istanbul in defence of Turkey...

Religion on the radio revisited

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Further to this post , it appears that 'Thought for the Day', the regular religious slot on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, has ...
Saturday, 28 April 2007

Vatican archbishop loses all sense of proportion

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Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and a close ally of Pope Benedict, has r...
Thursday, 26 April 2007

So that's what's wrong with Radio 1: not enough religion

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'Not religious enough'. That's the verdict of some Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops on Radio 1, according to the Man...
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