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Parliament has legislated itself into a corner when it comes to promoting marriage. The union that creates children and gives them the best start - a man and a woman, married - is the one no minister dares promote, for fear of being called discriminatory. The silence is thirteen years old and Children are paying for it. Are you happy now?
My parents divorced too, Bridget.
And yet everybody in my life still sees the importance of marriage & two-parent families.
And so does the evidence.
Children in two-parent households consistently do better than those who are not.
Just because you come from disrupted families does not mean you have to withdraw support for two-parent families.
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Labour MPs are calling on Burnham to scrap the Conversion Practices Bill. They warn it could criminalise parents who question medical transition for children. This Bill can’t be mended, and it should be dropped. freespeechunion.org/news/lab…
They quote my interview with Robin Aitken recently. The former BBC reporter says a “cabal” of journalists influenced trans coverage at the BBC. christiantoday.com/news/ex-b…
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Baroness Cass wants the National Lottery to stop funding The Love Tank, whose website gives guidance on how to access puberty blockers. My view on gender medicine for children is simple: no puberty blockers, in a trial or out of one. telegraph.co.uk/gift/1aee0d8…
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Päivi Räsänen, prosecuted in Finland for her Christian beliefs, says Europe’s hate speech laws are “dangerous”. christiantoday.com/news/euro…
Lord Macdonald, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, says the draft Conversion Practices Bill violates the rule of law. His objection is that it isn’t clear about conversations with children who are questioning their gender. telegraph.co.uk/gift/b7220a0…
Together for 45 years and never married, a millionaire and his former partner are in the High Court over a £6m home he allegedly promised would be hers. GET MARRIED - ITS GREAT! independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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Stonewall helped draw up Labour’s conversion practices Bill, says The Telegraph. It’s a LGBT blasphemy law to placate activists. DROP IT telegraph.co.uk/gift/93c57de…
Are we heading for a demographic crisis, and can immigration fill the gap? The Financial Times is asking. This isn’t primarily a story about immigration. It’s about who is and isn’t having children among people already living here. ft.com/content/d88a9e42-6cd0…
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People who regret transitioning say they’ve been shut out of Parliament’s scrutiny of the draft Conversion Practices Bill. We know there are MANY of them. LET THEM SPEAK! telegraph.co.uk/gift/7fe63dc…
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‘Colonialism is bad’ - except when it imposes LGBT ideology on another country 🙄
Disgraceful.
BREAKING: Trinidad and Tobago's law criminalising consensual sexual relations between male same-sex couples has been overturned by a UK court.
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled Trinidad and Tobago's laws unconstitutional under the country's own 1976 Constitution. The JCPC is T&T's final appellate court, retained voluntarily by the nation, not a UK domestic court.
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I’ll keep saying it: you don’t uphold marriage by building its replacement. A proposed ‘break-up law’ would let couples who’ve lived together at least three years, or share a child, seek financial support when they split. dailywaffle.co.uk/2026/11/pr…
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Nearly three million young people considered OnlyFans or a similar site to make money in the past year, the Centre for Social Justice found. That’s 18% of adults aged 18 to 34, as marriage rates fall. express.co.uk/news/politics/…
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More than 10,000 Sheffield couples are raising children without being married, Census data shows. A married mum and dad, committed for the long run, give the best outcomes on all measures - for men, for women and of course for children. ground.news/article/more-tha…
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By 25, young men are 26 times more likely to live with their mum than with a wife, the Centre for Social Justice finds. If you want more babies, you need more earlier and stable marriages. independent.co.uk/life-style…
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Why are so many couples divorcing after 20 years of marriage? More than a quarter of heterosexual divorces in England and Wales involve marriages that long. It's why I care about marriage repair as much as preparation. juliasamuel.substack.com/p/w…
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Churches, charitable societies and Christian families set up schools to form the whole person under God, Christian Today reminds us, and yet the state now treats educational freedom as a matter of its permission. christiantoday.com/news/the-…
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I do not believe hurty words should be criminalised, and “Are you sure?” isn't even a hurty one. Yet a writer in the Independent fears asking it could mean arrest under the draft Conversion Practices Bill. independent.co.uk/voices/con…
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Can prayer be a crime? LGBT campaigner Jayne Ozanne has told a parliamentary committee that prayer could be a form of conversion practice under the draft Bill. I don't believe words should be criminalised, and that includes prayer. Drop the Bill. christiantoday.com/news/conv…
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Baroness Falkner says the Government's trans law would be an unprecedented intrusion into family life. Genuine abuse is already illegal, so who is this law for? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2l…
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Child protection plans are up sharply across Teesside. The reasons given are parents' mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse, deprivation and poor housing. Stop airbrushing marriage out of the picture and start publishing the figures. thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2…
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