Sunday, April 11, 2010

Labour attacked over mailshot to cancer patients - Times Online

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Labour attacked over mailshot to cancer patients - Times Online

What an unethical approach to politics this is, targeting cancer sufferers and/or potential sufferers. I think we should be told exactly how this targeting was done so we can all check to ensure that private medical data was not used in any way.

Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI -Times Online

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Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI -Times Online

...Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.


The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys...

Clean up politics! Power 2010 event

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Great to respond to questions from voters at the Power 2010 event in Broadmead this Saturday (see pictures). Also good have a natter with other candidates, though representatives from Labour and the Tories were very thin on the ground (Paul Smith from Labour and Nick Yarker from the Tories were there and some other Labour leafletters came along late on) - does this say anything about their committment to radical democratic reforms??

See my post on the Power 2010 pledge here. My response to the DEMREF 2010 survey on democratic reforms is here. Blog posts on democracy or related to democracy are published in date order here.

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