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ANC breaks with Mbeki to condemn 'evident' crisis in Zimbabwe | Print |  Email
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
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
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
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
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
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
 
Burning an illusion | Print |  Email
It should have kindled sporting passions across the world, instead the olympic torch has become a public relations apocalypse, writes Torcuil Crichton in a three-page Sunday herald special report
 
July 2001: 'If China wins the Olympics, it will make progress on the promotion of human rights'. | Print |  Email
April 2008: The terror goes on...They promised progress but, as Edward Cody in Shanghai reports, human rights activists face brutal persecution. In The Washington Post
 
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