To The Daily Telegraph Faith schools in Northern Ireland helped to foster division and mistrust, encouraging children to grow up thinking those of another faith were different, if not downright enemies. Allowing Muslim faith schools is surely likely to have the same effect. It would appear that we never learn. Michael Edwards, Haslemere, Surrey I …
Dear Mavis, During a visit to my doctor I asked him, “How do you determine whether an older person should be put in an old age home?” “Well,” he said, “we fill up a bath tub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the person and ask them to empty the …
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. (Karl Kraus (1874 – 1936), Austrian journalist. Die Fackel no. 445/53, 18 January 1917). Epicurus also believed that winning a war was …
In a survey of belief in the Bible, which sampled 1,028 American adults aged 18 and older in interviews conducted May 8-11 of this year, 28 percent said they believed the Bible was the “actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word.” That percentage is down from the peak of …
Back in the 1970s, the UK was the sick man of Europe, and “over-mighty” labour was seen as a main cause of its malaise. But rather than adopt the German route to more flexible labour markets – a consensual approach in which unions are treated as partners – the UK sought to emulate the American …
