‘This law is a big step forward in the protection of children and girls in particular’: why many Christian parents are welcoming the increase in the legal age of marriage in England and Wales

Behind the bluster and beyond the vitriol, I am pleased to report that real politics is alive and well in the UK and living in mid-Derbyshire! This is not a political post, but bear with me for a moment.

If, in recent years, and certainly since Twitter arrived on the scene, you had just landed on Earth from Mars, you could be forgiven for thinking that political life in the UK consisted of partisans shouting at each other on social media, using vitriolic language to vent their anger and engaging in behaviour which brings politics, and its various components, into disrepute.