Is this Conservatism?
Matthew Parris's experiment with 30 marginal Tories reveals the extent to which Conservatives are willing to compromise for votes - but do they need to?
- 30 March 2013
Public support for gay marriage ≠ political success
The fight for gay marriage in the United States is raging - and it is still unclear how the politics will play out in the long run
- 28 March 2013.jpg?1363887207)
Marriage inequality: Remove marriage from the equation
The truth is that a government sans an established church, such as the one in the United States, should not be in the business of defining marriage at all
- 21 March 2013
Experts say "Clinton 2016" as Hillary sets out pro-gay marriage stance
Hillary Clinton has set out her policy on gay marriage, which commentators have claimed is a sure sign that she'll run for the Democratic nomination for President in 2016
- 18 March 2013
Tories must focus on "decency" when it comes to gay marriage
So long as the Conservative Party focuses on decency, rather than the image issue as I fear it’s doing today, it won’t go far wrong
- 5 February 2013
Why didn't Cameron call a referendum on gay marriage?
A referendum on gay marriage would have made things far easier for Cameron's queasy MPs and demonstrated the true popularity of the idea in the country
- 5 February 2013
Tolerance: Fundamentally intolerable
We are very much becoming an impolite, uncivil society. And all in the name of tolerance
- 11 January 2013
Gay marriage needs time for planning
Gay marriage has to be thought out and planned like the best weddings, to make sure we don’t end up with bad law
- 7 January 2013
Hypocrite Piers Morgan, "the moment [debate] becomes rude... you never achieve anything"
Piers Morgan has been caught in another hypocritical conundrum as he suggests an 'amendment to the Bible'
- 27 December 2012
Why same-sex marriage would undermine the institution
If David Cameron succeeds in legalising gay marriage, the consequence will be not a strengthening of marriage, but an undermining of respect for the whole institution
- 18 December 2012
View from the pew: PM's same-sex marriage blunder
Unfortunately, for the theologically-challenged Cameron, God has never been a liberal when it comes to the state usurping his eternal laws
- 12 December 2012
To be pro-gay marriage is to be conservative
In reality the change to marriage would be very little. It would be less a dark storm that blows off the old sturdy books of traditional marriage, more a gentle summer breeze to lightly change a stagnated page
- 12 December 2012
The last King of England
We are quite possibly less than a decade away from seeing the Monarchy, the Church, and marriage as a historic institution become intellectually and rationally indefensible in Britain
- 10 December 2012
Why the PC Brigade is making Britain less tolerant
The Rotherham Council/UKIP case is just another symptom of the intolerance and contempt displayed by the politically correct towards ordinary people
- 28 November 2012
A Very Civil Compromise
Opening Civil Partnership to all citizens would present a clear choice between religious marriage and civil partnership with equal legal rights bestowed by the state for each
- 15 November 2012
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