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Our most esteemed Winterval Wally to date - Baroness Julia Neuberger

2007-10-31T09:44:42+00:00

Oh how wonderful, we have our most esteemed Winterval Wally to date. The establishment's near favourite faith leader Baroness Julia Neuberger has just spouted this untruthful nonsense for the Washington Post: "Some local authorities in the UK wanted to ban Christmas at one stage, and tried to invent a 'winterval', a winter festival, with no associations." Oh no they didn't Julia and you are our latest nominee for Winterval Wally of 2007 for recycling lies in the Phoney War on Christmas. See here, here and here for more details on the award. Read the article and it seems Julia might...

How faith schools proved to be electoral arsenic for the Conservatives in Canada

2007-10-25T12:27:46+01:00

They may be wrong, but they are also popular. So goes the refrain about faith schools. So how to explain why in Canada when the Conservatives proposed to introduce religious schools into Ontario it became the main election issue, voters objected strongly leading the Conservatives into a crushing defeat. The Conservatives now describe their faith schools policy as "dead as a doornail". Well, fancy that.

How faith schools destroy parental choice

2007-10-24T13:16:07+01:00

Here's a shocking example of how the policy of handing over community schools to religious organisations and other Blair-inspired experiments have destroyed any hope of meaningful school choice for liberal or progressive parents who don't wish to send their children to non-selective, non-sectarian or non-fee paying schools. From Hansard for October 22nd 2006 Ken Purchase (Wolverhampton North East, Labour) Link to this | Hansard source "The hon. Gentleman mentioned church schools, which are bedevilling—forgive the pun, which was not intended—education in his constituency. The reason given for establishing academies there is that they will provide more parental choice. My constituency...

The Phoney War on Christmas: We have our 2nd Winterval Wally

2007-10-17T09:26:19+01:00

Wow, if this story had appeared in a national newspaper we could have declared this year's phoney War on Christmas well and truly open. However, and slightly bizarrely, our latest nomination for a Winterval Wally award for trotting out myths about Winterval goes to Management Today magazine. In an article about a biblical toys franchise the magazine boldly states: "Yet it seems like an unlikely time to be pushing religious toys, especially given that the multicultural nature of our country has already led to many schools ditching the term ‘Christmas’ in favour of the more inclusive ‘Winterval’." Excuse me? Schools...