Madeline Bunting is atheist baiting again. In her Guardian column this week she makes one spectacularly silly point, one mildly silly point and one good point which is a genuine issue for secularists. But it is a problem for the religious as well. Firstly, the really silly point – worth quoting in full: At first… Continue reading Madeline Bunting has a point SHOCKER!
Month: January 2009
Do you “deserve” your rights?
Anyone who thinks our civil liberties will be any better protected by a Conservative Government should think again. Speaking in Bangor (the Northern Ireland flavour) on Friday, the News Letter reports Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve saying: … there is “a rights culture†which is “out of controlâ€, not just in Ulster, but throughout the… Continue reading Do you “deserve” your rights?
Nine wishes for 2009 #6: the EU to get real
You never know, it’s just possible this might happen. 2008 presented a real quandary for me: on the one hand, I was (not uncritically) supportive of the European Constitutional Treaty. Its mutation into the Lisbon Treaty made it weaker still, removing one of the main advantages of the Constitutional Treaty in the first place (specifically,… Continue reading Nine wishes for 2009 #6: the EU to get real