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Posted in Government, Health, Human Rights, Morality, Religion on Feb 9th, 2010
Here’s something. Imagine you live in a community where you are expected to pay into a fund that is used to meet various needs in the community - the upkeep of roads, salaries for nurses and teachers, and community hospitality, for example. Then it transpires that you are about to receive a visit from a [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 7th, 2010
There is a sick theme running through all of this - or at least a clear attempt to involve some form of mental illness, and an attempt to bring in the people in white coats - well, at least psychologists if not psychiatrists.
Hey, I really, really don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and pour [...]
Posted in Faith, Health, Human Rights, Religion on Dec 11th, 2009
I have long thought that it seems ridiculous that hospital chaplains should be funded by the NHS - not least because all other NHS care is allowed because of its evidence base and scientific sense, and because the religious bodies should pay the wages of their own staff. I recently wrote a piece expressing [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Morality, Science on Dec 9th, 2009
The Merseyside Skeptics Society have produced the following open letter which I re-publish below in full:
An Open Letter to Alliance Boots
The Boots brand is synonymous with health care in the United Kingdom. Your website speaks proudly about your role as a health care provider and your commitment to deliver exceptional patient care. For many people, [...]
Posted in Business, Human Rights, Psychology, Relationships on Dec 4th, 2009
There are two types of managers that I hate: those that bully, and those that bend. I have worked for both in equal numbers during the course of my career - two bullies, and two bendies (as well as the occasional ‘good guy’), and I have to say, I actually prefer the bullies to the [...]
Posted in Faith, Government, Human Rights, Isolation, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 28th, 2009
Local vicars in Winscombe and Sandford in Somerset have been pressing to have prayers reinstated at the beginning of Parish Council meetings, a month after they were dropped.
The reason why they were dropped is not that the Parish Council wished to stop individuals talking to their imaginary friends in the privacy of their own homes, [...]
Posted in Censorship, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Religion, Society on Nov 13th, 2009
Press Release from the One Law for All Campaign
One Law for All campaign is organising a rally on Saturday 21 November 2009 at 1200pm in London’s Hyde Park. The rally aims to oppose religious laws in Britain and elsewhere, show solidarity with people living under and resisting Sharia, and to defend universal rights and secularism.
Simultaneous [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity on Nov 1st, 2009
The UK National Health Service (NHS), of course, like Mum’s cooking and apple pie, is wonderful. In times of crisis its nurses and doctors will deal gently and compassionately (if not always as speedily as you would like) in A&E, and will mend broken bones, replace hips, insert stents after heart attacks and perform countless other seeming miracles in [...]
If it is not women’s legs and bottoms (see Appropriateness), it is their breasts. Apparently some men, especially some religious men, just can’t leave them alone. It is bad enough that some women in the Sudan are being whipped for wearing trousers, now some in Somalia are being whipped for wearing bras.
According to press reports:
A HARDLINE Islamist [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Politics on Sep 1st, 2009
According to Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls, social workers ‘change lives’. Despite that attraction, and despite an appeal from many ‘famous’ people (Samantha Morton, Michelle Ryan, Sadie Frost, Goldie) adding their names to a UK campaign to recruit more social workers, I won’t be changing career myself (even if that were practically possible) or encouraging others to think [...]
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