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Call for euthanasia to be legal in UK | Print |  Email
Sunday, 19 October 2008
One of Britain's leading moral philosophers has called for a change in the law to allow assisted suicide in Britain following the death of paralysed rugby player Daniel James. Baroness Warnock, writing in today's Observer, calls for liberalisation of euthanasia laws on the grounds that 'we have a moral obligation to other people to take their seriously reached decisions with regard to their own lives equally seriously'.
 
TV’s Koran Idol keeps Afghan clerics at bay | Print |  Email
Sunday, 19 October 2008
The programme was created to appease the council of clerics, which was threatening to close down Afghan Star, the country’s most popular programme, an Afghan version of Pop Idol. Television is one of the few areas to show signs of progress since the 2001 fall of the Taliban, which banned the medium along with music, reports Christina Lamb in Kabul for the Sunday Times
 
Preaching to the masses | Print |  Email
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Those of us who have wondered why there is such a ridiculous excess of religion on the BBC now have the answer. It is because Mark Thompson, an enthusiastic Catholic, wants it. Thompson is a great proselytiser for his faith in the mould of Lord Reith, who thought the BBC was "the nation's church". And, of course, the BBC gives him a very big pulpit to preach from – one that reaches into just about every home in the country, and which we all have to pay for, writes Terry Sanderson in The Guardian
 
Why my son had the right to die, by the mother of Dan James | Print |  Email
Saturday, 18 October 2008
Julie James explained her decision to help her son kill himself in two emails to a newspaper earlier this month, in response to articles about the High Court “right to die” test case brought by multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy.   The Times
 
It's a bull market for humility, and shares in kindness are soaring | Print |  Email
Friday, 17 October 2008
We might even see a resurgence of the "happiness" movement of the early 1970s; of Schumacher's "small is beautiful" economic theory. We might find a new appreciation for the king of Bhutan's edict on the importance of "gross national happiness", and for John Ralston Saul's remark that the American mission of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" was nothing to do with money. Saul called for a more subtle understanding of contentment, "to escape the 20th-century idea that you should smile because you're at Disneyland", writes Simon Jenkins in The Guardian
 
Fighting tyranny with liberal secularism | Print |  Email
Friday, 17 October 2008
A seminar in Brussels brought together European liberals and Democrats to discuss if secularism can be a bulwark against fundamentalist violence and a tool for the European Union to use in dealing with extremism and even mainstream society, although it provoked reaction that perhaps religion is interfering with policy-making, reports New Europe Magazine
 
Scrap qualifying conditions for abortion and let women decide, say academics | Print |  Email
Friday, 17 October 2008

Britain’s 40-year-old abortion law flouts the legal principles that underpin modern medical practice, 85 academic lawyers and ethicists say today. In a letter to The Times they urge MPs to remove the “qualifying conditions” on abortion that require women to obtain signed permission from two doctors, calling it “an anomaly”. Modern medical practice makes clear that individuals are entitled to make their own healthcare decisions, even if they appear wrong or irrational to others, they say, writes Rosemary Bennett, Social Affairs Correspondent of The Times

 
Teach children what Muslims did for us, says minister Jim Knight | Print |  Email
Friday, 17 October 2008

Jim Knight, the schools minister, claimed lessons in the scientific and cultural innovations of Islam over the centuries would give young Muslims a sense of worth and reduce their risk of becoming alienated and falling under the spell of radicals. He said it could also bring divided communities closer together, by teaching children from other backgrounds about the debt we all owe to Muslims – from coffee and pinhole cameras to the three-course dinner and advancements in maths, writes Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph 

 
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