Sir Peter Vardy – an apology

We have apologised to Sir Peter Vardy and have paid a sum by way of damages which Sir Peter Vardy has donated to charity

by Tribune Editorial
Thursday, December 16th, 2010

On October 5 2009 we published an article entitled “Creationist Claptrap that Beggars Belief”. The article alleged that Sir Peter Vardy, by virtue of donating, through the Vardy Foundation, £2million of the £22 million it costs the taxpayer to build an academy school, was imposing fundamentalist beliefs and pseudoscience on children attending these schools. It alleged that children are being taught in biology lessons that evolution is as much a theory as creationism and that everything was designed by a god creator as stated literally in Genesis.

We accept that these allegations are untrue and that the schools funded by Sir Peter Vardy are not faith schools and do not advocate creationism. We accept that Sir Peter Vardy is not a creationist and has not sought to advance the teaching of creationism by means of sponsorship of education in the UK.

We have apologised to Sir Peter Vardy and have paid a sum by way of damages which Sir Peter Vardy has donated to charity.

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  • Oldbuffer32

    Pull the other one…..sounds like you had a legal obligation to say this but the rest of the world knows Vardy is a complete arsehole

  • Josiah

    The trade unions (tolpuddle martyrs etc) and eventually the labour party were started by Christians or god fearing people . Why have you gone so far away . Your other heroes, Stalin , Mao Tse Tung etc slaughtered multi millions of their own people. Can’t you see! Why attack some one who has done wonders for the schooling of working class children in the North East and Yorkshire. You are obviously not working class but the chattering class.

  • Rondog

    I am amazed the Tribune lost that case.
    There is plenty of evidence that Vardy favours a young earth creationist perspective:
    - Past interviews he has given.
    - The involvement of his senior teachers in promoting creationist teaching in the UK.
    - Statements by former pupils and teachers at the Emmanuel academies.
    - The known content of the philosophy, theology and ethics course taught at the schools (which is not checked as part of ofsted inspections).

    Were your lawyers asleep?.

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