It's For Their Own Good

[poliphilo]

Ruth Kelly, the authoritarian Minister for Education (she's a member of Opus Dei) proposes that school kids should be subject to random drugs testing.

We British really hate our children, don't we?

Comments

[currawong.livejournal.com]

...and change the Church's hardline position on contraception.
"Sister, could you take this nice cup of herbal tea to his Holiness. They didn't have a Borgia on their honours board for nothing.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Really- he was going to do that as well?- No wonder they had to hurry things along...

[currawong.livejournal.com]

The election of this compassionate and very modern John paul 1 was one of the most readical choices in Papal history ... he would have undoubtedly continued and expanded the liberalising influences of Vatican 11. Paul V1 would be considered a moderate. There was no way the hardline conservatives weren't going to fight back. The fact that JP11 was an anti-communist with experience of communism saw the enclave overlook his deep conservatism which hardened into a doctrinaire, mediaeval conservatism with the encouragement of Cardinal Ratzy, head of the inquisition and current creep.