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There is a report by Patrick Wintour in today’s Guardian that there are signs that the British Government may, at long last, be ready to tackle the endemic sexism and religious discrimination in the British Constitution.  The bar may finally be lifted.  Downing Street has drawn up plans to end the 300-year-old exclusion of Roman [...]

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Politicians who claim that their religious faith is a personal matter are either bad faith practitioners, or less than accurate in the honesty department. Perhaps their claim to privacy is just a way of saying, “I don’t really believe much of this stuff but am just using it to get votes,” or, “I do really [...]

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I may be wrong, but I often find that peoplewho insist on taking a simplestrong stance onsomething that otherssee as more complex, end up by either looking silly, orby later backing down. A case in point is the recent decision by the British Government to look again at the fate of five Guantanamo detainees who [...]

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