He is often more conservative than his colleagues.… Read the rest
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Nov 3rd, 2005 7:20 pm | By Ophelia BensonCatherine Bennett is amusing.
It is strange, isn’t it, to think that this fine-looking couple, recently seen experiencing spiritual ecstasy in East Grinstead, presumably believe in Scientologist founder Ron L Hubbard’s story of Xenu, the galactic tyrant who froze his victims and stored them in the Earth’s volcanos?
Yeah? I didn’t know that. I don’t keep up with Scientology (too busy keeping up with Feng shui, I guess), and I didn’t know that. The galactic tyrant! Froze his victims! Stored them in earth’s volcanoes. Very cool. Almost as cool as playing football in pyjamas with no goal and no crossbar and no hugging.
… Read the restIf, as Madonna says, she has been ridiculed for professing her beliefs, her best expedient would
Jon Pike Reviews Ted Honderich 
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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‘book ought to have done very serious damage to his reputation as one of Britain’s leading philosophers.’… Read the rest
Eve Garrard Reviews Michael Ignatieff
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Rights are far more ethically significant than a useful device to ensure that executive power is not abused.… Read the rest
French Hijab Ban Widely Accepted
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Bizarre headline bears no relation to article.… Read the rest
Turtles? Red Bracelets? Xenu? Holy Water?
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Lionel Blue maundering on Thought for the Day looks like golden age of secularism.… Read the rest
E O Wilson: Can Biology Do Better Than ‘Faith’?
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Rapprochement between science and religion may be neither possible nor desirable.… Read the rest
McMartin Preschool Case: ‘I Lied”
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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If he gave an answer they didn’t like, they asked again until he gave the right one.… Read the rest
Well Why Bother Then?
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Bush is widely expected to pardon Libby if he is convicted.… Read the rest
Emma Brockes Interviews Noam Chomsky
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Things get bad-tempered over Bosnia and Srebrenica.… Read the rest
Norm Geras on the Reductions of the Left
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Category of ‘imperialism’ so exhausts the thinking of part of the left as to lock it into regrettable positions.… Read the rest
Iran Fires Diplomats in Purge of Liberals
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Ambassadors to London, Paris, Berlin and UN mediated between Iran and Europe over nuclear programme. … Read the rest
Muslim Domestic Violence Cases are Different
Nov 3rd, 2005 |
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Or so police are told in Victoria, Australia. Muslim women not pleased.… Read the rest
Football Fatwa
Nov 2nd, 2005 8:11 pm | By Ophelia BensonThere must be a mole at the Guardian. Prince Charles would frown wonderingly in the manner of Ned Welch if he read this article – HRH would be most unamused. But that’s his problem.
As part of a government drive to eliminate frivolous fatwas, the Saudi newspaper Al Watan recently published a stone-cold sober one on football. If you can read it without collapsing in helpless laughter – I have bad news for you: you seem to be deceased.
… Read the restInternational terminology that heretics use, such as “foul,” “penalty”, “corner,” “goal”, “out” and others, should be abandoned and not said…Do not follow the heretics, the Jews, the Christians and especially evil America regarding the number of players. Do not play
Furtive Political Campaigns are the Wrong Kind
Nov 2nd, 2005 |
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A retreat into the mire of a furtive, grubby campaign of individual acts of anti-Semitic discrimination.… Read the rest
Van Gogh Commemoration Calls for Unity
Nov 2nd, 2005 |
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“We must not abandon each other,” Dutch PM Jan Peter Balkenende told a gathering in Amsterdam.… Read the rest
Doug Ireland on Michel Onfray
Nov 2nd, 2005 |
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The brightest star among the younger French philosophers.… Read the rest
Anniversary of Murder of Theo van Gogh
Nov 2nd, 2005 |
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Killer said he murdered out of religious conviction, would kill again in the name of Islam if given a chance. … Read the rest
South Asian Earthquake Toll Jumps to 73,000
Nov 2nd, 2005 |
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Relief commissioner Farooq Ahmed Khan said more than 69,000 were injured; expects casualty toll to rise. … Read the rest
Times Gets Early Start on Xmas Moaning
Nov 2nd, 2005 |
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South Lambeth taking the Christ out of Xmas.… Read the rest
