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Consumer wises up to the organic illusion | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 01 April 2008
You're a concerned, ethical citizen. You care about the impact of your shopping on the environment and your health. So which tomatoes should you buy: organic or conventional? Until now, most people have assumed that organic is the better choice, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that the organic/conventional distinction fails to draw the line between good and bad - agriculturally, environmentally and nutritionally writes Julian Baggini in The Herald
 
Mugabe: the writing's on the wall | Print |  Email
Monday, 31 March 2008
The writing was on the wall for Robert Mugabe last night. It was pinned to the side of polling tents, posted on school fences and written on the walls of community halls. The election results that Zimbabwe's president had made every effort to rig were coming in against him. By Daniel Howden in Bulawayo for The Independent
 
Who wants to kill the elderly? | Print |  Email
Monday, 31 March 2008
Last week, irked by what I saw as the use of wild exaggeration by church leaders in the embryology Bill debate, I challenged one of them - the Bishop of Durham - to justify one of his more outrageous claims," writes David Aaronovitch in The Times. Tom Wright had accused the “militantly atheist and secularist lobby” behind the Bill (a Bill, as it happens, supported and sponsored by many practising Christians) of believing “that we have the right to kill unborn children and surplus old people.”
 
There is a majority against vile video games, and it is moral | Print |  Email
Sunday, 30 March 2008

The report issued last week by Dr Tanya Byron on the effects of  violent computer games upon young people made decent recommendations of dubious  effectiveness. Dr Byron said games should be rated by the  user's age, and urged fines, even jail, for those selling them  to underage children, writes Jenny McCartney in The Sunday Telegraph

 
Wee Frees call on Salmond to set up religious schools | Print |  Email
Sunday, 30 March 2008
THE "Wee Frees" have called for their own schools – espousing strict biblical principles – to be set up in Scotland.

The Free Church of Scotland has urged Alex Salmond to create faith schools based on hardline Presbyterian principles. They have also called for abortion to be made illegal, reports Marc Horne in Scotland on Sunday

 
An unsuitable case for charity | Print |  Email
Sunday, 30 March 2008
The Charity Commission guidance on political activity could hardly be clearer: "A charity must not give support or funding to a political party, nor to a candidate or politician." Our report today that Care, the Christian charity, has been paying the salaries of research assistants for at least eight MPs appears on the face of it to suggest that the law has been broken, says a leader in The Independent on Sunday
 
Right-wing Christian group pays for Commons researchers | Print |  Email
Sunday, 30 March 2008
An evangelical Christian charity leading opposition to new laws on embryo research is funding interns in MPs' offices, an investigation by The Independent on Sunday has discovered.
 
Sick and suicidal: plight of women in UK jails | Print |  Email
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Most women prisoners have mental health problems, and nine of out 10 were convicted of non-violent offences. Now a new study shows an alarming rise in suicides and self-harm - and behind the statistics lie ruined lives and shattered relatives. With four inquests about to open, Amelia Hill reports on the growing scandal in Britain's penal system
 
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