A CONTROVERSIAL pro-euthanasia television advertisement, due to air at the weekend, has been banned by the authorities in Australia. The ad’s creator, lobby group Exit International, says the ban is a violation of free speech. The ad, which you can see below, features an actor playing a terminally-ill man man. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRDZFwlWU1s[/youtube] It ends by emphasising [...]
WITHIN hours of telling the other half that I’d sooner dip my dick in the Magimix than vote Tory in the upcoming general election, up pops a report in the Daily Telegraph which says that Conservative leader David Cameron has pledged to review Britain’s abortion laws and stop assisted suicide in “moves designed to place [...]
Welcome to Part 3 of the Freethinker/Grayling interview. Here, we ask him why religion has stuck around so long, if we could ever be free of superstition, why humanism is good for the world, and if free will could really exist in a purely physical world. PB: Daniel Dennett talks about it in terms of [...]
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SIR Ludovic Kennedy, the distinguished broadcaster, outspoken campaigner and committed atheist, died on Monday at a nursing home in Salisbury. At the age of 80, Kennedy – an honorary associate of the National Secular Society – wrote All in the Mind – a Farewell to God in which he dismissed beliefs on which Christianity was [...]
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LAWYERS from the Christian Legal Centre, headed by the ghastly Andrea Minichiello Williams, are demanding that new assisted suicide guidelines – published today – be put on hold because of Lord Phillips’ personal sympathy those calling for the rules to be relaxed. The new guidance was drawn up by the Crown Prosecution Service after Lord [...]
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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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
