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Terror law plans to be unveiled | Print |  Email
The government is pressing ahead with plans to allow the police to hold terrorism suspects for up to 42 days before they are charged. The Counter Terrorism Bill, due to be published later, will propose to extend the limit beyond the current 28 days. Some senior police officers support the move but it faces opposition from Tory, Lib Dem and some Labour MPs. From the BBC News site
 
David Cameron's fudge on faith school 'fakes' | Print |  Email
David Cameron believes that parents who pretend to have Christian beliefs in order to win places in church schools are doing the best for their children, report Philip Webster and Francis Elliott in The Times
 
Democratic ethics | Print |  Email
"There is, I suggest, no way to resolve the questions of medical ethics other than democratic decision. Neither Roman Catholicism nor humanism, nor any other life stance, can claim the moral high ground," writes Dr Harry Stopes-Roe, the British Humanist Association Vice-President in The Times
 
Is Scientology dangerous? | Print |  Email
An historian compares a Tom Cruise PR video for Scientology to the work of Goebbels; is the organisation a dangerous cult, or a harmless celebrity club? asks Chris Ayres in The Times
 
A nation in thrall to Thatcherism | Print |  Email
As a nation, we have become more liberal in our attitudes to sex and more caring about the environment. At least, we think we have, though when it comes to matching words and deeds, we fall down on the high standards we expect of ourselves. Despite our best intentions, we can be selfish, sexist, prejudiced and uncaring about the poor. In fact, when it comes to blaming the poor for being poor, attitudes are harder now than they were in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was at the peak of her influence, according to the annual report from British Social Attitudes in The Independent
 
The free-marketeers abhor the crutch of the state - until they start limping | Print |  Email
Turbo-capitalism is happy to rely on the public when it gets in trouble. Now we should demand a say the rest of the time, writes Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian
 
New guidance calls on universities to reject separatism and ban those who preach violence | Print |  Email
Universities with large numbers of Muslim students should consider rejecting demands for separate prayer and washing facilities to prevent their campuses segregating along religious lines and risking a climate where illegal extremist views can flourish, the government will suggest today. In The Guardian
 
A little less I M Jolly and a bit more serious joy | Print |  Email
There will be no dancing in the western aisles writes Ron Ferguson in The Herald as he concludes that there's a book to be written about the relationship between geography, weather and theology.
 
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