Day: 1 March 2013

Not because of ill health surely? Ill health and slowly dying more or less in public are an ancient feature of the papacy. This is perfectly natural in a religion primarily concerned with life after death, which preaches its availability to all, or to all who believe and behave in the ante-chamber of life on earth. Paedophilia, theft, […]

To fight a mid-term bye-election as a government party is difficult. To fight when the sitting MP resigned and is awaiting sentence for a crime is very difficult. To fight when, on top of all that, the headquarters of the party is engulfed in a sleazy scandal involving sex and the abuse of women, when […]