THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: The war being waged by the quasi-establishment and quasi-government Left in Britain against the nation's own traditions, values, identity and, perhaps most of all, religion, has been escalated and its battle-lines redefined with a report by a leading Labour Party-aligned think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, recommending that Christmas, which cannot be obliterated, should be down-graded to promote multiculturalism.
The report says that because it would be hard to "expunge" Christmas from the national calendar (although this would apparently be desirable), public organizations must be made to give non-Christian religious festivals equal footing.
Now, the Institute is not some unimportant relic of communist days clinging to existence in a squalid slum attic. On the contrary, it has very close links with the government. The report was commissioned when Nick Pearce, now head of public policy in the Prime Minister's Office, was its director. He was described in an interview on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's "Sunday Profile" recently as "One of the leading policy-makers in Great Britain." Before heading the IPPR he was a special advisor to Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett. It is credited with having shaped many Labour policies, including the institution of compulsory identity cards, litter-bin taxes and road pricing. It is described as one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's favorite think tanks. Britain’s Escalating War on Christianity (more) By Hal G.P. Colebatch
Hat Tip: Jim Ball
Mark Alexander
