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What the Irish Marriage Referendum Means
The first thing to say is congratulations to all those in Ireland who have campaigned and voted for a change in the law that will allow same-sex couples to be able to enter civil marriage. There’s something incredibly exciting about the fact that the first country to put marriage equality (or at least a step…
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Go Ireland. Go! Go! Go!
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Why the cake decision is the right decision
There has been a judgement this morning in an iconic legal case in Northern Ireland. A judge has found that a bakery discriminated against a gay customer over their refusal to bake a cake which had a slogan on it supporting the right of gay people to be married. The decision was the right one.…
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Scottish Opera – Il Trovatore review – ****
This review was published at Opera Britannia. Rating: It was a particular joy to see Il trovatore at the Theatre Royal, not only because it is a well directed, well sung sure-fire summer hit for Scottish Opera but also because I was seeing it in the company of someone who had never been to the…
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The kind of political party I’d like to see
I’m not a member of a political party at the moment, though obviously I have been in the past. Here’s the policies that would be to the fore in the kind of political party that I would like to see and which would get me back into making a more active engagement in politics: A…
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The Winners and the Losers
Well, the first thing to say to loyal readers who have been with me for a while is that there were no great surprises from last night’s election results, were there? After all, my New Year predictions relating to the election were not that far wide of the mark. In relation to the election, I…
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Well I’ve voted – and hope these are the political rules
I’d quite like to think these really were the political rules.
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10 Things I learned from being a General Election Candidate
Ten years ago today there was a General Election in the United Kingdom and 10 years ago today I was a candidate in it. Indeed, 10 years ago as I write this I was wearily standing at the polling station for the last 20 minutes of polling, thanking a few final voters for turning out.…
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Power needs to be baptised by love
Sermon preached by Kelvin Holdsworth on 3 May 2015 from St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on Vimeo. In the weeks after Easter, we get the only season of the year when we don’t directly read from the Hebrew Scriptures – the books that some call the Old Testament. Instead, our first reading each week comes from…
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Dear St George – here’s 3 dragons I’d like slaying
Today is St George’s Day. Cue articles about how we know almost nothing about St George and bewilderment as to how he became patron saint of England. Instead of that, here’s a few dragons that I like to see expertly slayed in our own day. 1 – Foodbanks in the UK. When I went to…