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Woman’s seven-year ordeal of rape and abuse in council care | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
The Mental Welfare Commission, which today publishes the report, Justice Denied, said despite several reports to police and referrals to procurators-fiscal, the men were never taken to court. It adds that her case is far from unique, saying: "The circumstances which allowed Miss A to be sexually assaulted, repeatedly, without those who assaulted her being brought to justice, are ones which are common throughout Scotland." Report by LUCY ADAMS, Chief Reporter in The Herald
 
Pope tells of Church's abuse shame on US trip | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
On his flight to the US, the pontiff said the sexual abuse of children had caused "great suffering" for the Church and "me personally". More than 5,000 sexual abuse victims have come forward since 2002. The scandal has cost the Church $2bn (£1bn) in damages. "Who is guilty of paedophilia cannot be a priest," he added, stating that the Church was now reviewing candidates for the priesthood. Read more in The Independent
 
ANC breaks with Mbeki to condemn 'evident' crisis in Zimbabwe | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
South Africa's ruling African National Congress has split publicly over the still-undeclared presidential election result in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe is accused of defying the verdict of his own voters. Leading ANC figures have openly contradicted President Thabo Mbeki, who declared after meeting Mr Mugabe in Harare last weekend that there was "no crisis" in Zimbabwe, reports The Independent's understandably anonymous correspondent in Harare
 
Teacher accuses Islamic school of racism | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
A former teacher at an Islamic school, who alleged that it taught an offensive and racist view of non-Muslims, has been awarded £70,000 by an employment tribunal after winning his case for unfair dismissal. Colin Cook told the tribunal in Watford that pupils were taught from Arabic books that likened Jews and Christians to “monkeys” and “pigs” at The King Fahad Academy, which is funded and run by the Saudi Arabian Government, reports
Alexandra Frean, Education Editor of The Times
 
Richard Dawkins' secular army must be stopped. God is behind some of our greatest art | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
It's a great tribute to our age that a scientist can still be greeted with more adulation than a pop princess. But I can't help noting the irony of the imagery that Dawkins' reception has conjured up. Falling at his feet? asks Mark Ravenhill
in The Guardian : Dawkin's riposte is here too
 
Devoid of intelligence | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Why won't intelligent design just go away? This week sees the US release of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a documentary film that attacks the theory of evolution. As suggested by its subtitle it berates the rejection by the scientific community of intelligent design - the mock-science creationism that was banished from US science classrooms in 2005 and in the UK last year, argues Adam Rutherford in The Guardian
 
BHA President is Britain's most influential columnist | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee has been voted the UK's "most influential" commentator for the second year running. Simon Jenkins and George Monbiot were also in the top 10. Toynbee topped a public vote and the "highly influential" category voted by more than 50 of her peers, reports The Guardian.
 
Girlification is destroying all the hope we felt in 1968 | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
The Office for National Statistics reported yesterday that women in their 40s earn 20% less per hour than their male counterparts. Young women start out earning almost the same, deluded by beating boys at exams. Motherhood knocks most out of the running. So what's new? Asks Polly Toynbee in The Guardian
 
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