According to the BBC, Jack Straw today is to announce plans “allowing MPs to scrutinise public appointments and choose bishops.” Sounds good to me. I think it should be Lib Dem policy to make Richard Dawkins the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
Category: culture wars
Abortion – only liberalism has the answer
The New Scientist has an interesting article this week all about abortion, which seems to be back in the news in a big way today. You can’t read it all online unless you have a subscription, but the nub of it is: Tellingly, the number of abortions fell almost exclusively in rich countries where terminating… Continue reading Abortion – only liberalism has the answer
Homeopaths resort to legal action to cure all headaches
A few weeks ago, the political blogosphere united to condemn the actions of Alisher Usmanov and his lawyers for attempting to shut down Craig Murray’s blog. We were right to do so; what made Usmanov’s actions particularly reprehensible was the way he used the law to intimidate Murray’s hosting company while cowardly avoiding a fight… Continue reading Homeopaths resort to legal action to cure all headaches