Shots outside of parliament

[minestrone]

If you look at a typical Irish Educate Together school, there are plenty of RC kids whose parents don't want an RC ethos education for them.

I'm uncomfortable with that line.

[northernladyuk]

What should be addressed is why a politician as capable as Blair knew his Catholicism should he hidden until after his political career.

He probably thought that conversion after he'd finished with his war crimes would wash away his sins, like the death-bed conversion of Charles II or death-bed baptisms of Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II.

[LondonManc]

What should be addressed is why a politician as capable as Blair knew his Catholicism should he hidden until after his political career.

That's the only time I've ever heard that description of him.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

What should be addressed is why a career politician as devious and self serving as Blair knew his Catholicism should he hidden until after his political career.

[LondonManc]

FTFY

Yep, seen that one before, funnily enough.

[northernladyuk]

I'm uncomfortable with that line.

Educate Together is an ethos of school, and Educate Together schools are mainly in Ireland. What is the problem?

[minestrone]

Educate Together is an ethos of school, and Educate Together schools are mainly in Ireland. What is the problem?

Yes, some Islamism nutter goes postal at Westminster, next thing we are going on about faith schooling in the south of Ireland.

Seriously?

[vetran]

That's the only time I've ever heard that description of him.

He was a very capable politician by any measure, he was a dreadful public servant.

[LondonManc]

He was a very capable politician by any measure, he was a dreadful public servant.

Legacy?
Anglo-Iraqi relations?
Finance?
NHS?

Do clarify, please, because everyone else barring you and Ed Dorrell of the Times Education Supplement thinks he was bloody awful.

[northernladyuk]

Yes, some Islamism nutter goes postal at Westminster, next thing we are going on about faith schooling in the south of Ireland.

Seriously?

How pissed are you?