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Debbie Purdy
IN A dramatic landmark judgement issued late this afternoon, the House of Lords unanimously ruled in favour of Debbie Purdy’s appeal to have the law on assisted suicide clarified.
The unanimous judgement, said MS sufferer Miss Purdy,...
INTERFERENCE by religious zealots earlier this month helped scupper Lord Falconer’s bid to exempt from investigation and prosecution those who help terminally ill people to travel abroad to seek assisted suicide in countries where such actions...
DEVOUT Christian Tillmon Webb, who apparently weighed 550lb in March of this year, couldn’t afford medical treatment for an injured leg. So he turned instead to God for healing – and died in considerable pain after not moving from his home recliner...
THE happy expressions on the faces of the two children chosen to front the British Humanist Association’s latest poster campaign were put there by Jesus. Apparently.
Writing in The Times yesterday, religious correspondent Ruth Gledhill fancied she...
IF YOU thought the Muslim world would be grateful that the Kaaba in Mecca is spared from destruction in Roland Emmerich’s latest doomsday movie, 2012, think again.
A bunch of witless Muslims who go by the name of the Indonesian Council of Ulema...
THE needle on my irony meter leapt off the scale this morning when I read that Pope Ratzinger was praying for all young people who suffer.
He addressed the issue of children during his weekly general audience as he marked the 20th anniversary of the...
IT just goes from bad to worse for those poor, beleaguered Scientology nutsters.
After the major hit they took in a court in France recently, and their loss of prominent member Paul Haggis, they are now licking their wounds from a mauling inflicted by...
I read this everyday. It's always topical, always hard hitting, and frequently raises issues that are really important in the secularism/atheism debate.