Tag Archives: Easter

A new holiday?

Lord Norton 05/04/2009 – 2:38 pm

The Archbishop of York has suggested that St George's day should be a holiday.  Is this an idea worth pursuing?  There are costs associated with creating a new public holiday, but we are notable for how few we have.   If there is merit in the idea, should we actually have 23 April as the holiday, or should we follow the practice for celebrating May Day, which is not to have the holiday on 1 Ma […]

Fixing the date of Easter?

Lord Norton 23/03/2008 – 6:42 pm

Does anyone have a view as to whether we should have a fixed date for Easter, a fixed Spring bank holiday separate from Easter as a religious occasion, or leave things as they are? The Easter Act 1928 introduced a fixed date but provided that before a draft order could be laid before Parliament 'regard shall be had to any opinion officially expressed by any Church or other Christian body'. Whe […]