JOSEPH KELLY: Tuesday’s Feast of the Epiphany was a somewhat ironic occasion for me – on the one hand many of us were celebrating the arrival of the Three Wise Men bearing gifts, whilst others were putting away the tinsel and taking their sagging Christmas tree to the council tip. As it happens a close... Read More

As David Cameron this week launched a fresh campaign to rid our shores of extremism, concerns have been expressed about the potentially uncontrollable impact of such new measures. In announcing a sweeping ‘Counter-extremism strategy’, which includes pumping an additional £5 million into ‘moderate muslim groups and charities’, the prime minister attracted widespread criticism about a... Read More

By Joseph Kelly David Cameron may have got a thunderous standing ovation for his big Tory party conference speech in Manchester this morning, but listening to his oration left me feeling hugely uncomfortable. Now in my 50s, I grew up in the heady decades of sexual revolutions, Marxist activism, Thatcherism, nuclear annihilation, national strikes, power... Read More