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Why my son had the right to die, by the mother of Dan James |
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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 |
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It's a bull market for humility, and shares in kindness are soaring |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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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 |
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Fighting tyranny with liberal secularism |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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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 |
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Scrap qualifying conditions for abortion and let women decide, say academics |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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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 |
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Teach children what Muslims did for us, says minister Jim Knight |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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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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Academy scheme to expand |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 |
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The decision to turn up to 70 on the list into academies will infuriate teachers, who argue that the programme is not proven – and removes schools from democratic control. Headteachers' leaders argued that many schools on the list had drawn glowing praise from Ofsted, the standards watchdog, for their efforts to improve the performance of the pupils they had taken in at 11. Some were high on the Government's "value added" league table – which shows how far they have exceeded expectations of pupils upon their arrival at school, writes Richard Garner, Education Editor of The Independent |
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Free to think for themselves |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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At a gathering of courageous ex-Muslims, the value of rational thought and personal choice were triumphantly reaffirmed, writes AC Grayling in The Guardian |
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Something to believe in |
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 |
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Humanists are often accused of being negative. We know what we don’t believe and are only too quick to demolish the fanciful ideas of those who profess a faith, just as AC Grayling does in his ruthless dissection of the argument for Intelligent Design. But what should we put in the place of religion? The new issue of New Humanist Magazine offers a range of alternatives . |
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