DATE : 9 January 2019 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
Virtual friends, virtual money… virtual reality v. Real disease, loneliness, pain and despair. The internet, we are told, has changed life, linking us with each other in ways never before envisaged, and giving us access to things that in previous generations we might have heard about, but would never have seen. We are told that […]
READ MOREDATE : 18 December 2018 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
Brighton and Hove city council has apparently issued advice to its teachers to tell Primary school children that trans-boys and men and non-binary people can have periods. Language used to talk about menstruation, the guidance says, should be inclusive of all genders (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boys-can-have-periods-too-primary-pupils-are-taught-hg5lb85mp). Since when, VfJUK asks, did it become alright to lie about science? Such […]
READ MOREDATE : 4 December 2018 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
For a long time lawyers and policy makers in the UK have been saying that divorce law, currently governed by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, is an outdated and outmoded shambles. Last year The Times, backed by Sir Paul Coleridge of the Marriage Foundation, began a campaign calling for what they branded urgent and long overdue reform. In […]
READ MOREDATE : 27 November 2018 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
(Text of talk given by Lynda at the Christian Coalition for Education Conference in Oxford, Saturday 24thNovember) In multi-cultural Britain, where the majority of the population actually have no faith, secularism is presented as the objective voice of reason working to establish successful democratic governance across the world. “We campaign for a secular democracy with […]
READ MOREDATE : 21 November 2018 AUTHOR : Lynda Rose
At the end of its draft Guidance into Relationships and Sex and Relationships Education, the Government helpfully details what it describes as ‘… the many excellent resources already available, free of charge, which schools can use to deliver the new curriculum. Under Sex Education, it includes: Sexual health and relationships: range of resources available at […]
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