I FIND the idea of organised dog-fights utterly despicable, and regard those who engage in this horrifying pastime as savages who deserve nothing less than having their nuts crushed in the jaws of a grumpy pit-bull terrier. So it was with gritted teeth that I forced myself last night to listen to a BBC Radio [...]
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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, gives the Director of Public Prosecutions: An amazing opportunity to make clear what is and what is not [...]
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IN WHAT appears to have been an effort to spare Sudan international embarrassment, a Khartoum judge has offered a woman charged with wearing “indecent” clothing immunity from prosecution. But Lubna Ahmed Hussein, arrested recently for wearing the “crime” of trousers, has rejected the offer – made by the judge because she works for the UN [...]
INVITING gay people to write their names in a Bible displayed in Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art has proved an embarrassing mistake for naïve Christian artist Jane Clarke. Clarke’s intent was that gay and transgendered people would jot down their names in the book to show how they had been “marginalised” by Christianity. But it [...]
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JUST when we thought that efforts to pander to Muslim “sensitivities” had reached the limits of madness in the UK, along comes another bloody daft initiative, this time from the Avon and Somerset Constabulary. The force, according to The Times, has begun equipping its female officers with uniform issue hijabs to wear when they enter [...]
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DR MICHAEL Irwin, 78, who is due to address Brighton atheists on the subject of assisted suicide on September 2, has challenged police to arrest him for his involvement in the death of a British businessman in 2007. The former GP sent £1,500 to the Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas to help cover the money needed [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
