Author Archives: Malgwyn

The Widening Pay Gap Between Rich & Poor UK

Deborah Hargreaves, chair of the High Pay Commission, says Britain’s fat cat elite is immune from the pain of the UK downturn. “As bankers receive their multi-million pound bonuses in the next couple of months, the contrast with stagnating average earnings will become starker.” Most of the public had no idea what top bosses were [...]

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Tony Blair V Christopher Hitchens In Faith Debate

“It won’t be broadcast on BBC World until January 1, 2011, but the word is already out on the debate on Friday, November 26. It was between the fit Tony Blair, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and writer Christopher Hitchens, one of the “new atheists” (along with such others Richard Dawkins and [...]

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We Are More Alien Than Human!

Says Rowan Hooper, “Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. . . .”That’s the view of scientists at Imperial College London who published a paper in Nature Biotechnology . . .Because our bodies are made of only some several trillion human cells, we [...]

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UK Christians Unfit to Foster Children?

This is what hit the UK media on the 1st of November. The BBC reported “A Christian couple “were doomed” not to be allowed to foster children after it emerged they disapproved of homosexuality, a court has heard.
“Eunice and Owen Johns, 65 and 62, cared for about 15 children in the 1990s,” but due to [...]

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18 Children & Not On Benefits!

It’s worth reading the surprise in some of the comments following this story that unlike so many such news’ stories in the UK this large family in the USA is self-sufficient and not on benefits!

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Half Of England’s Newly Qualified Teachers Quit Within 5 Years

If I had been a disruptive pupil at school I would have been dealt with at school and at home if bad behaviour was reported. It never was because, although I never entirly escaped the ‘best of six’ coming heavily down on my fingers tips, good behavior was the expectation in my family. We have [...]

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Review of ‘The Grand Design’ by Stephen Hawking

Following the publishing of Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, The Guardian took a poll from its readers who said 62.5% believed God was responsible for the creation of the universe, and not natural law as Hawking proposes. Hawking’s first book, The Brief History of Time, was a huge success but described. It was [...]

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Review: ‘The Loser Letters’ by Mary Eberstadt

In earlier post I thought that The Loser Letters: ‘A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism‘ by Mary Eberstadt looks a good read. I was not disappointed - I couldn’t put it down. This is about atheism V belief - serious stuff couched in the witty and comical. It is as the Product Description [...]

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If You Love Climbing Here’s The Stairway To Heaven - Nearly!

I don’t mind heights - normal heights! Despite the really good view at the top I wouldn’t have second thoughts about this climb - just watching this video could get me needing acrophobia therapy!

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Michael Behe: Intelligent Design Scientist Tours The UK In November

The New UK-Based Centre for Intelligent Design has just announced a November lecture tour featuring Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, Michael Behe. The tour will include lectures in Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and London. Beginning in Warwick on November 20 the Group’s press release about the tour can be found here.
There should be a good reception for the [...]

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