Home arrow Media Scan
Media Scan
Labour's perverse polyclinic scheme is the next step in privatising the NHS | Print |  Email
The giant healthcare centres set to replace local GP surgeries are good for no one but the firms who will profit, writes George Monbiot in The Guardian
 
MI5 accused of colluding in torture of terrorist suspects | Print |  Email
Officers of the Security Service, MI5, are being accused of "outsourcing" the torture of British citizens to a notorious Pakistani intelligence agency in an attempt to obtain information about terrorist plots and to secure convictions against al-Qaida suspects, reports Ian Cobain in The Guardian
 
Abolish postal voting on demand. Now | Print |  Email
Postal voting fraud is even worse than roll-stuffing, because real people are denied their voice. Government says postal voting is “more convenient”. You betcha. It is convenient for patriarchs and “community leaders”, bullies who gather up the votes of weaker members of their group and deliver them to the desired candidate, writes Libby Purves in The Times
 
Who would Jesus vote for? | Print |  Email
The "faith communities" in this country are not as powerful as some politicians would believe, and candidiates shouldn't allow themselves to be pushed into policies that don't chime with the majority of the population, writes Terry Sanderson in Comment is Free
 
Why should Muslims put up with being stereotyped? | Print |  Email
"Like all other humans, I am a creature of multiple and changeable parts," writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in The Independent. "However, British Muslims are not permitted such complexities. We must be only Muslim (definition highly specified), walking rule books in uniform, freakishly religious, and preferably demanding and noisy."
 
If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House? | Print |  Email

The fastest-growing faith in America is no faith at all. And now some atheists think they need a church, writes Sean McManus in the New York Magazine

 
Debate on sexual health ‘closed down by Catholic Church’ | Print |  Email
The expert who led Scotland's drive to improve sexual health said yesterday the Scottish Government had deliberately "closed down" debate because of heat from the Catholic Church. Professor Phil Hanlon said that, rather than embrace the need to change attitudes to sex and sexuality, the country's culture had deteriorated since his strategy was published four years ago, reports HELEN PUTTICK, Health Correspondent of The Herald
 
'Sustainable' bio-plastic can damage the environment | Print |  Email
The worldwide effort by supermarkets and industry to replace conventional oil-based plastic with eco-friendly "bioplastics" made from plants is causing environmental problems and consumer confusion, according to a Guardian study.
 
More...
<< Start < Prev 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Next > End >>

Results 601 - 612 of 1109
[ Back ]