In Depth:  Dave Brennan

Not one of the 26 Lords Spiritual spoke up or voted against the violence to be unleashed in Northern Ireland.

Westminster has passed a bill without any opposition from the Church of England bishops that will allow children in Northern Ireland to be poisoned, dismembered, crushed, and beheaded in the womb without anaesthetic up to 28 weeks for any reason, making it one of the most barbaric abortion regimes in the world. This Bill is more liberal than abortion laws for the rest of the UK. Abortion is allowed up to 23 weeks and 6 days, or up to birth where the baby is shown to have a medical abnormality, or there is significant risk to the life of the mother. In 2018, 92% of abortions took place before week 13 of pregnancy, and 2% (4,000 abortions) took place after 20 weeks.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Britain’s retreat from India.

However, the British Government’s comprehensive burning of all records of colonial rule is something we hear less about, and is an example of how ‘civilised’ societies can succeed in oppressing the less powerful without backlash. The method is simple and incredibly powerful: just make sure that most people don’t see what is actually happening.