Michael Merrick is about to start a PhD in the School of Divinity, St. Andrews University. Here he argues that the contemporary obsession with ‘progressive’ politics nullifies political identity and fuels personality politics. On numerous occasions over the past few months Mr. Cameron has enunciated the rough outlines of a blossoming trend within the Conservative […]
Michael Merrick argues that denying religion a public voice can be unhealthy for politics and disastrous for an increasingly isolated social-underclass. The creedal exegetes of secular Britain tend to cling devoutly to the belief that religion and politics should not mix. Indeed, when any wayward politician is so naïve as to publicly associate the guiding […]
Michael Merrick is studying for a PhD in the School of Divinity at St. Andrews University. There appears to be a hardening consensus behind the opinion that David Cameron, conscious of his electability in the key marginal seats that will decide the election, is seeking to present a Tory party sterilised of the toxicity that […]