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Bexley Conservatives: The Case for Sensible Politics

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Why I’m Voting Conservative in Bexley: And Why It Matters for Our Borough Local elections might not grab national headlines, but they have a huge impact on our everyday lives, our streets, schools, roads, and public services. This year, I’ve decided to vote Conservative in Bexley, and I want to explain why in a clear and practical way. Some residents may feel tempted to vote for Reform or the Greens in certain wards. I understand that desire. People want change and they want results. But in Bexley, splitting the vote between multiple parties can unintentionally help extremes gain control. Under the first-past-the-post system, even well-intentioned votes can have unintended consequences if they divide the electorate. The bigger question is this. Do we want a council that is more polarised and extreme, with Reform and the Greens constantly clashing, or do we want sensible, practical politics? I’m not talking about perfect politics, that doesn’t exist, but a level of certainty and stabi...
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How Dangerous Is Zack Polanski?

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Looking beyond media caricatures to ask whether Zack Polanski’s politics are genuinely dangerous, or simply deeply unrealistic. I found myself going through old messages between me and Zack Polanski. To be clear from the outset, these are not messages for public consumption, nor would I ever share them. They were private conversations that took place while Zack and I were members of the same party, the Liberal Democrats, and continued just after he left to join the Greens. It was a time when we were both enthusiastic, restless, and searching for change. We both wanted something better and were trying to work out what that actually looked like. Zack eventually removed me as a friend because of my pro-Israeli stance. I do not think he fully understood why that position mattered to me or why I believed it needed to be voiced. If you genuinely support a two-state solution, you must be both pro-Palestinian and pro-Zionist. You cannot logically support a two-state solution while rejecting ...
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The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

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A historical exploration of Jesus, the early church, and the eyewitness accounts that shaped Christianity. Discover how the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit reveal God as Three in One, and why this message of love and truth still resonates today. When I look at the New Testament I do not see a single source text that was arbitrarily written. What I see is a collection of documents from multiple authors, written in different places, over several decades, that together preserve the memory and testimony of people who lived through the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  I see these writings as historical documents first, as records of real events written by people who believed they had encountered something extraordinary. The fact that these texts were produced by different authors in different contexts allows readers today to compare, cross reference, and evaluate them against one another. This diversity of source material is one of the reasons why I find the New Te...
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How the New Testament Holds Together

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History, Eyewitnesses, and the Trinity in the Earliest Gospel Skeptics often say the New Testament is late, fragmented, or full of contradictions. Others insist the idea of the Trinity or the divinity of Jesus was a later invention, hammered out in dusty councils centuries after the fact. But when you actually trace the evidence, manuscripts, eyewitness testimony, the distinct purposes of the Gospel writers, and the early Christian witness, a very different picture emerges. What you get is not legend piled on myth, but a living tradition that is both historically grounded and spiritually coherent. Paul’s Letters: The Earliest Christian Writings The New Testament does not start with the Gospels. The oldest surviving documents are the letters of Paul, written in the 50s CE, only about 20 years after the crucifixion. In these letters, Paul is not inventing Christianity out of thin air. He is passing on traditions that were already old by the time he wrote. In 1 Corinthians 15:3–7, Pa...
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