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The world is trying to outlaw the bombs that maimed this child. Britain wants to keep them...Why? | Print |  Email
Sunday, 13 April 2008

GORDON BROWN plans to renege on his personal pledge to ban cluster bombs after pressure from the Ministry of Defence. The government will seek exemptions from a global ban for a number of types of cluster bomb stockpiled by UK forces at a forthcoming international summit in Dublin next month, writes Neil Mackay in The Sunday Herald

 
A good year for Scotland | Print |  Email
Sunday, 13 April 2008
The record of the SNP's first year in power is impressive. Policies such as freezing Council Tax, cutting prescription charges, scrapping bridge tolls, scrapping the graduate endowment and saving some local hospital units from downgrading have struck a chord with wide sections of the Scottish electorate, reports Scotland on Sunday
 
Britain craven in the face of despotism | Print |  Email
Sunday, 13 April 2008
The Saudis' successful attempt to bully the Serious Fraud Office was  conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, writes Nick Cohen in The Observer
 
Sunday on the BBC | Print |  Email
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Polygamy sect raids in Texas; the $2 billion civil suits against the Catholic church over child abuse in the USA; the collapse of the Peniel Church as its leader resigns admitting adultery; The BBC Radio 4 "Sunday" programme is a great deal more critical of religions than you might expect. Listen again here
 
Bishop blocks gay church blessing | Print |  Email
Sunday, 13 April 2008
A gay couple's church blessing has been blocked because the ceremony "looked too much like a wedding".
Paul Sewell, 41, and Andy Nicholson, 42 from Metheringham had planned a civil ceremony and then wanted a blessing in their local church in Dunston, but the Bishop of Lincoln said a parish church was not an appropriate venue, reports the BBC
 
Exploring a New Humanism | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Harvard's Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein's story illuminates an aspect of U.S. culture that may be obscured by the "faith debates." He is passionate about articulating an atheist identity that is not driven by a stance against religion, but by positive ethical beliefs and actions. A podcast and transcript from Speaking of Faith on American Public Media
 
Dawkins warns of human extinction | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
GOD does not exist, people who believe the earth is 6000 years old are "loonies and idiots" and teaching children to fear the fires of hell is plain evil. Just a few of the contentious opinions put forward by outspoken atheist Professor Richard Dawkins to an 850-strong audience in Inverness on Wednesday 04 April, 2008. The lecture and discussion, organised by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Millennium Institute, has sparked lively debate, reports Catriona Ross in The Inverness Courier
 
Hitchens brothers debate the tough stuff: God, war | Print |  Email
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Saddam Hussein was bad. So is God. And they share common traits. So said a best-selling atheist author Thursday in a debate with his Christian brother in front of about 1,200 people in Fountain Street Church. Christopher Hitchens praised the war in Iraq, saying it "brought one of the great war criminals of the world to justice," writes Matt Vande Bunte in The Grand Rapids Press
 
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