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Off topic: advertising God
Amid all the atheist bus hokum of recent months, I passed a London bus this morning which carried the ad “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” (Psalms 14:1 (KJV)) The ad reminded of something a Northern Irish cleric said to me during The Troubles – “We’re a very religious people.…
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Allen Stanford – who knew?
Amid all this talk of suspicions about Allen Stanford and his method of business – many people might be asking themselves, who knew? Where was the media all this time? Let’s whistle back through the archives ten years…
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Alfie Patten: the PCC and payment to parents
The Press Complaints Commission makes the following announcement regarding a child who is not Britain’s youngest-ever father: The Press Complaints Commission has announced an inquiry into alleged payments by The Sun and the People to the parents of Alfie Patten.
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Salman Rushdie
Editors, reporters and even cartoonists are in the grip of religious McCarthyism. Freedom of Speech lies bleeding in the gutter, near its dead friend, Rationalism. Superstition struts its stuff. Religion won’t kill you, but it knows someone who might just beat you till your brains come out of your ears. We are afraid to even…