Monthly Archives: June 2026

Gillick competence and sexual abuse

Posted on 24/06/2026 by Jon Garvey

One of the harrowing things about the recently published Rape Gang Report is how often young girls of twelve or thirteen, once discovered to be in abusive situations, are assumed by the police and other authorities to be in consensual relationships.

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The Church in Ezekiel’s shoes

Posted on 20/06/2026 by Jon Garvey

Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Enquiry has been published, and is here. Where it isn’t is anywhere in the Main Stream Media, nor under passionate discussion in Parliament, where a sparsely populated House of Commons seems to have received it with a general sense of ennuie. They’ve heard it all before… or at least, have studiously missed debates on the matter to avoid hearing about it.

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A rose by any other name is still a rose…

Posted on 14/06/2026 by Jon Garvey

…but the rose itself can mutate I watched a video, by a YouTuber I’d not encountered before, with some hesitation. It is entitled Why I’m no longer evangelical, and I can live without another apostasy story, or even another defection to Rome or Constantinople. But given that the provider goes by the name “Reformed Pastor,” the contradiction intrigued me.

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Some brief new thoughts on Genesis 6

Posted on 09/06/2026 by Jon Garvey

In my Generations of Heaven and Earth (pp.36-39) I deal with the odd story of the sons of God marrying the daughters of men, related (but not necessarily genealogically) with the mysterious nephilim, often translated “giants” and much beloved of YouTube fantasists.

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Ideology as brain surgery

Posted on 06/06/2026 by Jon Garvey

The Henry Nowak murder has rightly drawn attention to the Critical Race Theory underpinning and infecting police training, and much more, within our institutions. But perhaps the focused coverage is in danger of missing that the same cult ideology governs every aspect of what passes for British institutions now.

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What turns Evangelicals Catholic?

Posted on 03/06/2026 by Jon Garvey

Prompted by my last post I have dug into Elliott-Binns Religion in the Victorian Era. It confirms my understanding that the re-moralising, and re-spiritualising, of Victorian Britain was quite complex in causation, but did indeed seem to begin with Nonconformist and Anglican Evangelicals campaigning on the abolition of slavery. Maybe Asa Briggs just read Elliott-Binns and took the credit.

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