Politics, religion and the shifting intersections between them are potentially incendiary topics of conversation at dinner parties these days and probably best avoided if you want to maintain inter-lefty harmony.
Not everyone’s keeping quiet though. Scottish pedagogue Shuggy is the latest to burn the bruschetta:
Since the shit hit the fan circa September 11th 2001, a number of people have asked the question: when did the left abandon it’s traditional position on organised religion? Being rather elderly – but in the apparent minority of people possessing a memory, I can tell you it was in 1988…..
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