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The world's markets gambled on financial alchemy. They lost. | Print |  Email
Sunday, 23 March 2008
COME BACK Karl Marx, all is forgiven. Just when everyone thought that the German philosopher's critique of capitalism had been buried with the Soviet Union, suddenly capitalism reverts to type. It has laid a colossal, global egg and plunged the world economy into precisely the kind of crisis he forecast. Hedge fund managers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your bonuses, writes Iain MacWhirter in The Sunday Herald
 
Catholic MP hits out at Church | Print |  Email
Sunday, 23 March 2008
Jim Devine, the Labour MP for Livingston, alled for Cardinal Keith O'Brien to meet the scientists involved in Embryo research after the churchman launched a fierce attack on what he described as "monstrous" plans, which would allow for the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research purposes. Devine said he would be "happy" to set up a meeting between the leading Catholic and Dr Stephen Minger, the director of the stem cell biology laboratory at King's College London who has claimed the cardinal was "misrepresenting science. Read more in The Sunday Herald
 
Muslim plan to stifle free speech moves up a gear | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 March 2008
IHEU has responded to claims that the “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam” is “not an alternative” to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but “complementary” to it. In a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council, IHEU opposed any resolution that seeks to limit the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration. Read the full statement here on the IHEU site and this article on the issue from the National Secular Society
 
Society’s most vulnerable will suffer as charity cash dries up | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Dozens of charities across Scotland working to get former drug addicts and homeless people into employment are being forced to close key services. Critics say the move undermines the Scottish Government rhetoric on trying to get people off drugs and into work, writes LUCY ADAMS, Chief Reporter on The Herald
 
It looks like Man crucified | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 March 2008
As a godless, atheistic Marxist, I have never been less worried about religion. What does worry me is the rise of a New Atheism that, never mind God, appears to have lost faith in humanity, writes Mick Hume in The Times
 
Tibet: the jealousy, rage and bitterness that fuelled deadly riots | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Young Tibetans may not remember earlier uprisings but the ethnic tension between the ruled and their rulers is just as acute today, reports Jane Macartney in Beijing for The Times
 
The resurrection of sin | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Is there still a place for sin in modern society? The language has all but disappeared, but the concept may awaken a greater sense of moral responsibility, writes Barney Zwartz in The Age
 
The politics of religion | Print |  Email
Saturday, 22 March 2008
Pastor Jeremiah Wright apparently sees this nation as defective and divided beyond repair. Obama thinks the defects are only a part of the story, and that a unity transcending ancient racial distrusts is achievable writes Steve Chapman in The Chicago Tribune
 
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