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Wot’s a Dead Chicken Want With a Teddy Bear? *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

Or flowers? Who knows, but it’s safe in the arms of Jesus, so that’s good.… Read the rest



UK Sociologist Testifies in ID Case, Cites Behe *

Oct 26th, 2005 | Filed by

‘Cards are stacked against radical, innovative views getting a fair hearing in science these days.’… Read the rest



Complicity with Complicity

Oct 25th, 2005 11:25 pm | By

A kind reader sent me such an interesting announcement – which included the injunction at the top ‘Please Circulate Widely’ – so I will! Nobody’s ever said I’m not obliging. (That’s an arrant falsehood, of course, but never mind.)

I should warn you though – this adventure took place October 20 – so that was last week – so it’s over. So you can’t go. So don’t get all excited, because you can’t go.

You’ll really wish you could, though, when I tell you where it was held. In the ‘Namaste Lounge’ – that’s where. I’m not making it up.

There was a ‘panel on the questions surrounding racialized sexualized politics within
the neoliberal political economy through an understanding of … Read the rest



Carry No Dead Badgers nor Hoopoes nor Bats *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Like some eager perfectibilian schoolboy, believing it can banish cultural frictions from the earth.… Read the rest



Rosa Parks *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

‘No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.’… Read the rest



Reporters Without Borders Protests *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Sentenced for reprinting articles criticising stoning and corporal punishment.… Read the rest



International Federation of Journalists Reacts *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Condemns imprisonment of editor of Women’s Rights magazine.… Read the rest



Editor Sentenced to Two Years for ‘Blasphemy’ *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Committee to Protect Journalists outraged by conviction of Ali Mohaqiq Nasab.… Read the rest



Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Judge Beatrice Ntuba *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Women and the law in Cameroon. Must-see film.… Read the rest



Tricky to File a Grievance When Boss is God *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Clergy enjoy none of the employment rights others take for granted.… Read the rest



Catholic Bishops Vote to Remain Reactionary *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Also to continue meddling in politics and elections.… Read the rest



The Battle of Ideas *

Oct 25th, 2005 | Filed by

Nothing like a good cognitive brawl, is there.… Read the rest



DJ ‘Highlights a Community Concern’ *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

‘I firmly believe that something happened. I have no proof and no facts, but I believe there are witnesses…’… Read the rest



Birmingham Riot Over Rumour of Rape *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

Rape claim said to have been broadcast on pirate radio station, put out on community-based website.… Read the rest



Two People Killed in Birmingham After Riot *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

Over rumours that African-Caribbean teenage girl was gang raped in an Asian beauty store. … Read the rest



Toobin Reviews Breyer on ‘Active Liberty’ *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

‘He trusts Congress a lot more than the left did…and a lot more than the right does today.’… Read the rest



Bayley’s Tiresome Attempt to Tease Seriousness *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

Almost wilful flaccidity of the chit-chat, almost freakish resistance to ideas, result in mere drift.… Read the rest



Witches Excited About Religous Hatred Law *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

High priest of witches pleased they ‘will be protected by these new laws from bias or persecution.’… Read the rest



Rowan Atkinson on Religious Hatred Bill *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

‘This is about creating an intimidating and potentially stifling climate.’… Read the rest



Penguins not Christian, not Monogamous *

Oct 24th, 2005 | Filed by

Not designed. Director of ‘March of the Penguins’ irritated by Xian loonies.… Read the rest