Were they using the Ollie Robinson row yesterday to test the water for a wider, deeper intervention?
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor and an Anglican Reader. The death penalty is an emotive and difficult subject. For the past two days the BBC Today programme has carried the story of the execution of Troy Davis in the United States, on both occasions presenting two aspects of the story, first that “many people […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor and an Anglican Reader. If I were to have made three predictions about David Cameron’s announcement that he would be reviewing the issue of “Gay Marriage” they would have been: That it would provoke a swift response; It would become a disproportionate distraction from other more pressing problems; It […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent. He is also an Anglican Reader. Graeme Archer was absolutely right when he identified in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph that the Left is much better than the Right at paying heed to the importance of defining the terms of a political debate before it truly gets started. Their […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent. He is also an Anglican Reader. Liberal Britain remains stunned and shamed by what it saw on the streets of Britain. It says that it recognises the need for a bold response, but do not believe for a moment that this heralds a willingness to row back […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent. He is also an Anglican Reader. You can often tell that the truth about something has become uncomfortable for its proponents when they re-brand it with a subtle change of terminology. In the military field, “civilian deaths” morphed into “collateral damage” and “abortion” has become the eminently […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent Before the country embarks on a lengthy debate about House of Lords Reform, it might be worth considering if there is not a more important and pressing debate which needs to be had about another, even more powerful, unaccountable, and unelected group of legislators – The Judiciary. Today’s […]
Martin Sewell is a family lawyer As I followed yesterday's discussions about “social mobility”, I could not help but recall a mathematical friend’s dismay at hearing a left wing politician assert that he would not be content until everybody received “above average earnings”. He patiently explained that an average had to be precisely at the […]
On this morning’s Today programme Michael Gove was in lively form, discussing the National Curriculum. During its course, he highlighted the fact that only two names specifically appear in the History syllabus. William Wilberforce and Olaudah Equianau share that honour. Splendid as each of them are, I confess to having spell checked the latter. Needing […]
Solicitor and Anglican Reader Martin Sewell welcomes the return of the BBC to a more positive approach to religious matters. It may not only be British politics that took a step in the right direction this year. This week has not only seen the BBC – the progressives’ favourite Establishment institution – broadcasting a straightforward […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent. On Wednesday, Tim Montgomerie offered the following proposition to Guardian readers: “The surest route out of poverty: good education, strong family and willingness to work”. Reading the many internet responses, one could not help but feel that he had ventured into a den of self-righteousness, as readers’ […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent and here he flags up the chaotic legacy of Labour’s stewardship of Legal Aid. I suspect that many Conservatives may not put the problems of Legal Aid high on their political agenda, and for many years they may have ceded the ground to Labour who claim to […]
Martin Sewell, family Solicitor from Kent argues that Questions of “Partnership” and “Living Together” have always been complex and David Laws is entitled to the same benefit of the doubt as many other ordinary people. In the “diverse society” which are all called upon to celebrate today, many of us live messy lives. Gone are […]
Martin Sewell is a Kent-based family lawyer specialising in child protection. As a political nerd I thought David Cameron did well in the Election Debate on Thursday, but my opinion does not matter a jot, and frankly, if you are reading this, the same applies for your opinion too. The fact is that the media […]
Martin Sewell is a family Solicitor from Kent This week has had two primary news stories directing our attention to the same difficult subject of adolescent sexuality and the response of the adult world to it. Both stories should be sounding a klaxon to alert us that we have got all this seriously wrong. In […]