Year: 2010

It is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother.

TV is popular culture, the working class likes it, so put down that book.

Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?

A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.

Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.

Ibn Warraq on a one-eyed view of the relationship between the Arab and Western worlds.

‘Today, the open society is challenged by Islamism’

Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.

Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet.

Hundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.

It is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.

Iran’s most prominent political dissident talks to the philosopher.

Chills the blood.

The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.

Appendix F – a must read.

A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.

A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’.

Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.