A good crowd...

...for the annual meeting of the Family Education Trust...extra chairs had to be brought it, and there were lots of new, and young, faces. Sir Paul Coleridge, a senior judge in the Family Division of the High Court, spoke superbly and robustly about the crisis in marriage and the family, and called for the formation of some form of Trust which would work unequivocally to support, uphold and defend lifelong male/female marriage...there were lots of creative ideas in his speech and there is work to be done here...and Dr Arik Sigman, author of The Spoilt Generation spoke brilliantly about the importance of authority and its place in the rearing and protection of children. His book is well worth reading.

Young campaigners from various parts of Britain spoke during the morning, some describing local battles over ghastly forms of sex education in primary schools...although we heard some grim things, it was hugely encouraging to discover how people are prepared to fight for what is right, and not to give in to slogans and jargon when crucial issues are at stake...

The meeting had an upbeat and forward-looking feel to it, somehow different in style and mood from some I have attended organised by groups which spend too much time griping. There was a great buzz of talk over lunch, a bookstall crammed with good things, and a sense of people working together to achieve something worthwhile...