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| The Catholic Association for Racial Justice has called for the Ministry of Justice to take action against prison officers after it was revealed that they are proportionally more than twice as likely than prisoners to be reported for racism. The ministry of Justice figures show total alleged racist incidents in prisons rose from 11,380 to 14,191 between 2006 and 2008, an increase of 24 per cent. These allegations suggest one-in-seven staff members receive complaints about racist remarks, compared with one-in-16 prisoners accused for similar behaviour. | |
| Politics | The Universe – February 21st 2010 |
| 1 in 5 people believe politics would improve if more MPs read the Bible. A quarter of people also said they would trust an MP who is practising Christian more than one who is not. And almost three quarters of all people (71%) say that the expenses scandal has heightened their concerns over perceived integrity issues. This does, however, mean that nearly a quarter of people would still vote along party lines even if they believed that their MP had behaved with no personal integrity. The ComRes poll for Bible Society also found that: 72% of people say that the personal integrity of their MP matters more to them that the party to which they belong. Women (74%) are more likely than men (695) to favour personal integrity over party allegiance – according to a Bible Society poll. Over a third of people actually assumed that their MP was Christian. | |
| Politics | Inspire – March 2010 |
| A referendum on changing the way MPs are elected will be held by October 2011 if government plans passed by the commons reach the statute book before the General Election. MPs voted to let the public decide if the traditional first-past-the-post system should be replaced by the Alternative Vote system, which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – February 10th 2010 |
| Lord Mandelson’s department spent more than £1 million on entertaining last year. The department for business, innovation and skills, headed by Lord Mandelson, paid out £1,162,044 on entertainment between December 2008 and November 2009, Business minister Pat McFadden said. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – February 11th 2010 |
| The Children’s secretary Ed Balls has demanded an urgent inquiry after a loophole was highlighted that allows Sunday school teachers to smack children. Labour MP Ann Cryer has called for the loophole to be closed. Currently teachers who look after children for less than 12.5 hours a week are classed as having the same status as standing in for a parent. | |
| Politics | The Church of England Newspaper – January 22nd 2010 |
| Politicians welcomed proposals to widen the “Sarah’s Law” sex offender alert scheme in England and Wales. Home Secretary Alan Johnson, said the pilot programme, which allows parents to check if some with access to their children has a history of child sex offences, was to be rolled out across the country after successful trials. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – January 25th 2010 |
| The leaders of the three main parties have agreed to terms for a series of televised debates during the next general election campaign. The broadcasters BBC, ITV and Sky said under the terms of the deals they would each be hosting one debate during the campaign. The programmes, lasting between 85 and 90 minutes, will be filmed in front of a selected studio audience. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 22nd December 2009 |
| A churchwarden of 15 years’ standing has resigned after he was found to be a member of the BNP. David North says the resignation was forced on him after the Diocese of Leicester said his views were “incompatible” with Christianity. He had been churchwarden at the Frisby on the Wreake village church of St Thomas of Canterbury on two separate occasions over the last 15 years and has been a member of the BNP for much of that time. “After many years of service to my church, I feel very let down to be asked to resign as churchwarden. I have done nothing illegal whatsoever. To be asked to resign because I’m a member of the BNP hurts. I have done nothing wrong.” | |
| Politics | The Church of England Newspaper – 30th November 2009 |
| The Director of the Islamic Centre of England has called for British Muslims serving in the armed forces to quit the services, as it is ‘haram’, forbidden for them to fight fellow Muslims. In an interview with The Times, Abdolhossein Moezi, who serves as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s Special Envoy to Britain, said Muslims could not serve in Western armies when those armies were engaged in fighting Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
| Politics | The Church of England Newspaper – 27th November 2009 |
| Sir John Scarlett, who drew up the Government’s Iraq dossier, has said Tony Blair’s claim of weapons of mass destruction was “overtly political”. Sir John, who was the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, has told the official inquiry into the war he felt he regarded the dossier’s foreword as separate to the main report. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 9th December 2009 |
| The European Union’s governing commission has warned Turkey that it must provide better protection for religious rights if it still hopes to join the EU by 2015. The report was issued as the European Court of Human Rights accepted two separate suits by Orthodox and Protestant churches that Turkey had violated their rights by denying them property ownership and legal registration. It said EU experts had welcomed the enactment of 2008 law on religious foundations, but remained concerned that religious teaching at Turkish schools continued to “favour Islam”, while non-Muslim communities faced difficulties building and maintaining places of worship. | |
| Politics | The Universe – November 1st 2009 |
| in a relentless and cynical campaign to win votes. The bishop said Catholics needed to be “on the alert” following the BNP’s success in the European elections, and he warned that people should not underestimate the rise of the far-right party now it had a foothold in Europe with two MEP’s. The Bishop strongly rejected BNP leader Nick Griffin’s Question Time claim that British culture is “white and Christian”. Pointing to St Marie’s RC Cathedral in Sheffield, where 57 language communities are represented at the weekend Masses, he said he was “certain” that at least half of the congregation had not been born in England. | |
| Politics | The Universe – October 8th 2009 |
| Winter fuel payments for pensioners are an “unsustainable” response to fuel poverty and should be reconsidered, a report said today. The Government’s £2.7 billion-a-year budget for winter fuel payments might be better spent on modernising the homes of pensioners who cannot afford to heat them properly, suggested local government spending watchdog the Audit Commission. The Commission pointed out that twelve per cent of people receiving the payments are in fuel poverty. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – October 21st 2009 |
| Ministers have lost track of around 40,000 migrants who have no right to be in Britain. The Home Office admitted the illegal immigrants should have left the country more than six years ago but could still be here. Officials have launched a trawl of the cases to try and find them and remove them from the country. Every file will be checked against the police and terror lists to see if they present a risk to the public. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – October 21st 2009 |
| Nearly nine out of ten people do not trust the government to hold personal information, a survey revealed today. A Study by campaign group Big Brother Watch found eighty six per cent of those polled feared for the safety of private data in the Governments hands. Trust levels are plummeting, as a similar study seven years ago found just over half of people lacked trust in Government. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – October 28th 2009 |
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