Monthly Archives: May 2008
Pro-lifers must protest at Mail and Dorries’ insult to women’s intelligence
This week, in the run up to the second reading of the human fertilisation and embroyolgy bill, anti-abortionist campaigners have used the Daily Mail as a soap-box for their liturgy of guilt and condemnation on women who have foetuses aborted … Continue reading
Filed under 24 week time limit, Fact, Guardian, Myth, Nadine Dorries, Polly Toynbee, Zoe Williams
REQUEST FOR ACTION
The question – ‘What is your religion?’ – in the 2001 Census led to deeply flawed results. The British Humanist Association (BHA) is now working to make sure that the question or questions about religion in the 2011 Census give … Continue reading
Filed under Bishops, Census, Christianity, House of Lords, Statistics
KEEP THE 24 WEEK ABORTION TIME LIMIT
Zoe Williams makes some very telling points about abortion time limits in Guardian Comment in Free today.This is the link http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/07/gender.health
Filed under 24 week time limit, Guardian, Zoe Williams
IS THIS "NORMAL"?
Late yesterday evening I watched “Am I Normal”, introduced by psychologist Dr Tanya Byron, on BBC2. (I get BBC2 in Brussels on cable). The programme looked a sexual behaviour and attempted to define normality. Much of it was disturbing, not … Continue reading
Filed under glamour models, soft porn
BAD DAY FOR LONDON
There is no getting away from it – Thursday 1 May was a bad day for the capital. Ken Livingstone has done an extraordinarily good job on our behalf. His most striking achievement, the congestion charge, was one of the … Continue reading
VOTE FOR KEN
Londoners go to the polls today in one of the most important elections we will ever have. Ken Livingstone has turned London into a world class city. During the past eight years Ken has reduced pollution by introducing the congestion … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
