Amidst all the weighty wheeling and dealing in the corridors of power aimed at producing a new government, politicians may overlook the plight of a brutally oppressed and voiceless minority.

I am intrigued by the findings of the International Theological Commission on the Catholic concept of “Limbo”.

The Commission's Secretary General has been quoted as stating, in relation to children that die without baptism; that “we can say we have many reasons to hope that there is salvation for these babies”.

The Pope has agreed with the Commission's assessment of an unbaptised baby's chances of being “saved”. It refers to “serious theological and liturgical grounds for so hoping.

With a general election looming, writers and artists in this country should be asking questions about the Bright New Dawn the government promised them nineteen months ago. 

The savaging to death of a five-year-old girl in Britain must serve as another reminder of how dangerous pitbulls are and how grossly unsuitable they are as pets. These, and other similar vicious breeds, should be banned completely by law and the breeding of them made a criminal offence.