Maura Moynihan disputes Ed Klein’s account of her father and his successor.… Read the rest
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Jesus College for Future Politicians
Jun 25th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Who gloat that non-Christians ‘shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.’… Read the rest
Conscious Torment
Jun 25th, 2005 2:52 am | By Ophelia BensonSo religion makes people good, does it. Christianity makes people more kind and compassionate does it. Well, maybe sometimes it does, but all too often it (at least the extreme, narrow version of it that is so popular in the US) makes people – not just not better, but horrifying. Disgusting. So appalling it’s hard to take it in.
Patrick Henry is a Christian university where the students all (shades of Oxbridge and the Thirty Nine Articles) sign a ten-part statement of faith –
agreeing that, among other things, Hell is a place where “all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.”
Okay, I know we’re supposed to be all tolerant and respectful, we’re … Read the rest
Inheritance is a Form of Brute-luck Inequality
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Strategies used by the rich affect life chances of poorer groups.… Read the rest
Call for International Arms Trade Treaty
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Arms supplied by G8 contribute to gross violations of human rights.… Read the rest
Arms Trade Undermines Poverty Relief
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
G8 leaders under pressure to stop the arms trade with repressive regimes.… Read the rest
Co-operative Bank Bars Christian Group
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Christian Voice’ asked to close its account on the grounds of its anti-homosexuality.… Read the rest
UK Urges African Action on Mugabe
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Jack Straw said Mugabe’s government would keep trashing homes until African leaders united against him.… Read the rest
Africa Urged to Act
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
G8 ministers in London expressed strong concern about events in Zimbabwe.… Read the rest
Zimbabwe Demolitions in Pictures
Jun 24th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
UN estimates 200,000 Zimbabweans have been made homeless.… Read the rest
Chemise Ouvert
Jun 23rd, 2005 9:07 pm | By Ophelia BensonPeople seem to be on a mission to entertain us with stories of absurd or preening or egomaniacal men. Yesterday we had Laurie Taylor mocking his younger trendier self, today (because today is when I saw it, not when it came out) we have Kevin Jackson teasing his teenage out of date existentialist self.
… Read the restIf you did happen to be a swot and/or would-be intellectual, Sartre was even harder to avoid—he was one of the few modern gurus who could rival Kafka and Beckett in the bookish adolescent’s pantheon of lugubrious heroes…I look back on all this adolescent Sartreanism with relatively slight embarrassment; everyone, after all, has to start the messy job of growing up with the fodder their
Althusser Made Sartre Look Like a High Tory
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Derrida made him look vieux chapeau.… Read the rest
Paolo Coelho Hurtling Towards Stupidity
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Spiritual’ protagonist actually obsessed with money, status, own importance.… Read the rest
The Swallows of Kabul
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Algerian army officer writes novel about life under the Taliban.… Read the rest
Breakthrough in Journalistic Ethics
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
New BBC guidelines declare accuracy more important than speed in breaking news.… Read the rest
Where Are the Bodies, Bob?
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bob Geldof has claimed that dead African children wash up on a tiny Italian island every day. The island’s mayor says that is ‘absolute nonsense’.… Read the rest
Wall Street Journal vs. The Scientific Consensus
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Real Climate responds to incorrect assertions made in WSJ editorial.… Read the rest
Popinjays Take Note
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
George Galloway calls Louise Ellman ‘Israel’s MP on Merseyside.’… Read the rest
Killen Convicted of Manslaughter
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Civil Rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner were murdered in 1964.… Read the rest
Girl Wins Divorce to Return to School
Jun 23rd, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Chenigall Suseela was married against her will at age 12.… Read the rest