Dennis Sewell, Author at Catholic Herald

Dennis Sewell

October 13, 2016

The simple clash between pro-choice and pro-life camps is giving way to a more complex but no less ferocious struggle

October 13, 2016

From Poland to Texas, from Chile via Indiana to Channel 4’s Dispatches, the issue of abortion seems to have recovered its political salience during the past year or so. People are talking about it in legislative assemblies and television studios. Sometimes they are marching in the streets again. But there has been a change in

Dennis Sewell: The danger of manufactured grievances

July 21, 2016

Among the “burning injustices” identified by Theresa May on the steps of Downing Street on her first day in her new job was “if you’re black, you’re treated more harshly by the criminal justice system than if you’re white”. A generation ago the Prime Minister’s assertion would have been a truism. But after a quarter

Worse than eugenics

May 05, 2016

“If it were made possible, do you think Down’s syndrome should disappear from society?” Put in this stark form, the question pulls you up short. When it was posed in precisely those terms to the Dutch geneticist Hans Galjaard, a former member of the Unesco bioethics committee, it drew an equally direct reply: “Yes, that

Worse than eugenics

May 05, 2016

Myths about Down's syndrome lead to thousands of abortions every year. A new proposal will make it even harder for parents to resist social pressure

Dennis Sewell: Don’t believe the anti-academy myths

March 24, 2016

Where I live, the local council is not highly regarded. Once, our borough was a byword for corruption and incompetence. Today it’s only a byword for incompetence. The chumps down at the Town Hall struggle to perform even the most basic of tasks, for instance getting the dustbins emptied each week. The housing stock they

Dennis Sewell: Weird is the new normal

December 22, 2015

With all the Janus-like looking back and looking ahead that goes on at this time of year, we once again confront the awkward paradox of progress. Not even self-styled progressives really believe in progress any more, in the sense that things can only get better over time or that everything in the present is axiomatically superior

Where Amnesty went wrong

October 15, 2015

When the charity decided to campaign for abortion it dramatically abandoned its Catholic founder’s vision

The plot to sterilise the world’s poor

June 18, 2015

First it was eugenics - now, under the guise of environmentalism, governments across the world are trying to force the poor and ‘culturally backward’ not to breed

I was wrong: Ofsted is a real menace

January 29, 2015

It was a mistake to think that Ofsted could be relied upon to adopt a sensible approach to promoting British values in schools

Catholics had a true friend in Michael Gove

July 17, 2014

The outgoing Education Secretary wanted to revitalise the Catholic school system, but he only met heel-dragging and indifference

Jon Huntsman was crazy to back evolution

January 30, 2012

Dennis Sewell says most US voters reject the theory because of claims that it makes God and Christian morality redundant

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