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It is Not Just Family Unity or Income that Determines Childhood Well-Being
Posted by David Conway in Education, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Immigration, Multiculturalism on 21/04/2009
Far be it from me to say a bad word about the institution of marriage or the benefits of the two-parent family. However, anyone tempted to hold the vast recent increase of family break-down and single parent families in Britain responsible for the country’s very low place in the European rankings for youth well-being should think again.
Many European countries with appreciably much higher rates of out-of-wedlock births than Britain come much higher than it in those rankings. One other European country, with a much lower rate of out-of-wedlock births than Britain (Lithuania), comes even lower than it does in the rankings.
It’s time to shelve the Equality Bill
Posted by James Gubb in Civil Liberty, Human Rights, Immigration, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Race and Equality on 30/10/2008
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), an organisation armed to the teeth with legal powers to protect groups that claim to be victims of oppression, recently expressed fears that the recession will not only harm ethnic minorities but also some white people.
“It is clear,” he said, “that what defines disadvantage won’t be black or brown, it will be white. And we will have to take positive action to help some white groups”.
Was he saying that we should help people when they need assistance, regardless of their colour? If so, he was spot on.
Continue at the Daily Telegraph Blog.
Making Hay While the Sun Didn’t Shine
Posted by David Conway in Immigration on 03/06/2008
This year’s annual Hay-on-Wye Festival has just ended. In his column in last week’s Sunday Times, Jeremy Clarkson wrote this about the annual twelve-day jamboree:
‘You might imagine that Hay is a lovely day out for all the family, a chance for children to meet all the authors they love… Of course, it’s no such thing. Mainly it’s a chance for ramblers and hippies to gather in a field and convince themselves everyone thinks the same way that they do.’
continued on the Centre for Social Cohesion blog.
Rivers of blood – 40 years on
Posted by David Green in Immigration on 21/04/2008
Yesterday, on the anniversary of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech, Trevor Phillips urged us to hold a calm and measured debate about immigration. Despite his good intentions he still managed to malign the British people. On ‘the right’ he said that the issue became taboo because conservatives feared being branded racist. And ‘the left’ thought that a free and open debate would stir up reactionary sentiment among their working-class voters.
Public debate was suppressed, it seems, for purely self-serving political reasons. My recollection of the period since the 1960s is different. The bond that unites British people has never been based on race. It has long been an allegiance rooted in support for shared beliefs and institutions. It is a civic allegiance, symbolised by the Crown, and one of the core beliefs is moral equality. Everyone is not only equal under the law, but also entitled to fair play in any face-to-face dealings.
The Truth About the Effects of Immigration: Lone Voice in Wilderness is Joined by Lordly Chorus
Posted by David Conway in Immigration on 01/04/2008
Sir Andrew Green of Migrationwatch has been arguing the point for ages. But it took a cross-party House of Lords Committee to join the chorus before what he has been banging on about all this time finally to make it to the front pages of the national press.
What the Lords Committee has joined Sir Andrew in pointing out is that, contrary to the Government’s much vaunted claim about how much economic benefit the country has gained from the huge influx in immigration over which it has presided this last decade, the vast majority of the country’s indigenous population has not enjoyed one iota of benefit from it. Indeed, many of the poorest groups have suffered economically as a result of it.
continued on the Centre for Social Cohesion blog.
Gord on Blighty
Posted by Nick Cowen in Immigration on 25/09/2007
‘Every citizen who answer[s] the call of the country – policemen and women, our security and emergency services, our health services – all le[ave] their mark on this island’s story by keeping us safe. They are the pride of Britain.
‘Just as our armed services with bravery and heroism every single day also make us proud. We mourn those who have been lost and we honour all those who in distant places of danger give so much to our country.’
So spoke Gordon Brown yesterday at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.
In response to the patriotic sentiments here expressed, one feels tempted to respond:
continued on the Centre for Social Cohesion blog.