A fascinating interview with Jim Messina who has been hired by the Conservatives in the UK to help them at the next General Election. Amazing stuff. They basically modelled elector behaviour and worked out what things made people more likely…
Tag: Conservatives
Modelling Elector Behaviour
Posted in Statistics, UK Politics, US Politics Tagged with: Amazing Stuff, Conservatives, Democrat, Elector, General Election, Jim Messina
Colin Coward Nails It
Sometimes the Director of Changing Attitude just gets it spot on. The Church of England knows it has a crisis on its hands. It thinks the crisis might be solved by gently persuading enough conservatives to overcome their convictions and…
Posted in Church of England Tagged with: Attitude, Bishops, Church Members, Church of England, Colin Coward, Conservatives, Convictions, Courage, Disdain, God Of Love, Nails, Nature Of God, Precipice, Prejudice, Straight To The Point, Synod, Understandings, Vicar, Vindictive God
2013 Local Elections – Predictions
I have taken the local elections opinion poll from ComRes (published on the 30th of April) and looked at how the projected share of the vote converts into local county council and unitary authority seats. I have also examined the…
Posted in Election, UK Politics Tagged with: Allegiance, Assumptions, Bnp, Boundary Changes, Conservatives, Dorset, East Sussex, Good Chance, Headlines, Isle Of Wight, Labour, Lancashire, Last Time, Leicestershire, Liberal Democrats, Lincolnshire, Local County, Local Elections, Marriage, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Opinion Poll, Oxfordshire, Party Loyalty, Same Sex Marriage, Shropshire, Time Predictions, Unitary Authority, Vote, Warwickshire, West Sussex
Fast-track to Polygamy?
Here’s an interesting idea. Wait until you see who wrote it. So there’s one aspect of the pro-gay-marriage brief that deserves a mental asterisk. A second argument that has always been a bit weak has been the attempt to minimise…
Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage, Polyamory Tagged with: Adult Persons, Adulthood, Asterisk, Conservatives, Fast Track, Heterosexuals, Legal Commitment, Legalisation, Man Woman, Married Couples, Meaning Of The Word, Paradigm Shift, Pro Gay Marriage, Proponents, Ridiculous Question, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriages, Social Institutions, Traditional Marriage, Woman Woman
Gender Dysphoria on Waterloo Road
This month Waterloo Road, the BBC One “School” drama (though frankly I don’t know any school like that one) has been exploring the issue of gender dysphoria as the youngest member of the Barry family, Kasey, struggles with her gender identity.…
Posted in Television, Transgender, UK Tagged with: Bbc, Concentrate, Conservative Christians, Conservatives, Experiences, Gender Dysphoria, Gender Identity, Glee, Gut Response, Important Point, Natural Consequence, Psychological Roots, School Drama, Sex And Gender, Sex Changes, Sex Chromosomes, Stereotypes, Transgender Issues, Waterloo Road, Young Woman
Facing the Reality
Conservatives in the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland have produced a video on the subject of human sexuality, and it’s really very good. There is also a website where the video can be downloaded in a high-spec format or a DVD…
Posted in Church of Scotland, Sexuality Tagged with: Church Of Scotland, Conservatives, Human Sexuality, Presbyterian Church
Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
