Reading West’s MP, Martin Salter has an interesting take on the Pope’s recent comments on the UK’s equality legistlation:

I’ve never been entirely comfortable with the relationship between organised religion and politics. You only have to look across the water at Northern Ireland to understand the minefield that this lethal cocktail can create.

However, yesterday’s comments by the Pope on Britain’s lawmaking could possibly be the first time that a bloke in a dress has complained about equality legislation.

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And while we’re pondering the pontiff, here’s a link to the National Secular Society’s Make the Pope Pay petition, asking the Catholic church to find the cash for his upcoming visit to the UK.

Meanwhile, Reading East’s MP, Rob Wilson, has been promoting so-called Traditional Chinese Medicine. What was he thinking?