by Archive | Jul 15, 2014
Giles Fraser recently wrote that “assisted dying is the final triumph of market capitalism” and concluded, “When the moral history of the 21st century comes to be written, I predict we will look back with horror at how the word choice became a sort...
by Archive | Jul 15, 2014
The Church of England’s general synod has given the go-ahead for women to be bishops. The move won the required minimum of two-thirds of votes among bishops and both lay and clergy representatives at the gathering in York. (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/20648) For...
by Archive | Jul 13, 2014
The hundreds of thousands of public sector workers who joined marches, pickets lines and rallies across England and Wales on 10 July have cast into sharp relief the attitudes of those who would divide us, those who cannot see past their own narrow interests and those...
by Archive | Jul 13, 2014
People in the UK unable to work because of depression may have their benefits stopped if they do not undergo cognitive behavioural therapy, which it is assumed will cure them, a newspaper has reported. If this plan goes ahead, sizeable numbers of mentally ill people...
by Archive | Jul 11, 2014
Low share prices when the UK government privatised Royal Mail cost the taxpayer around £1 billion, a parliamentary committee has reported. Meanwhile the National Health Service and social services are in financial crisis. Low share prices when the UK government...
