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The Value of Life

Looking beyond the economic crisis and political conferences, this week's news makes for dismal reading. Early on Sunday, following an evening out with friends and family, 45-year-old Frank McGarahan sought to stop a group of men attacking a homeless Lithuanian man and his girlfriend in Norwich, but...

John Hayward   Posted: 2 October 2008   1 comment

Keywords: Lifestyle Issues,

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Archbishops' City Attacks

Wednesday night the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned the world's stock market traders as bank robbers and asset strippers. While we might want to question the practice of short-selling, it seems a bit much to accuse of wrong-doing people who have broken no laws and who have simply been doing...

John Hayward   Posted: 26 September 2008   3 comments

Keywords: Finance & the Economy,

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Lehman Brothers a 'victim'?

On the BBC News website there are currently two (and certainly many more) examples of how the financial markets crisis is being reported.The one approach is exemplified by this reporting: "Lehman ..... is the latest victim of the global credit crunch." The monolithic entity 'Lehman' is a victim of this...

Alan White   Posted: 17 September 2008   1 comment

Keywords: Finance & the Economy,

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Creationism Confusion

Despite coverage on four pages of today's Times (two paragraphs on the front page, the leader on p.2, the whole of p.3, and opinion piece opposite the letters), I was left wondering what it was that the Royal Society's Director of Education, Professor Michael Reiss, had in fact said about creationism....

John Hayward   Posted: 12 September 2008   7 comments

Keywords: Science & Technology,

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The Next Generation

"Economic and academic concerns trump relational ones, despite the latter's crucial role in child, and later adult's, well-being. Children's policy misses the importance of relationships and political thinking in general misses the relevance of high levels of relational stress and relational poverty...

John Hayward   Posted: 11 September 2008   No comments

Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,

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What the media doesn't tell us

"[Wednesday] was Sarah Palin’s night. But what prepared her to be believable was the speech of Linda Lingle, the Governor of Hawaii." My experience of attending political party conferences is that the media consistently presents its own distorted version of events, so that people seeing...

John Hayward   Posted: 5 September 2008   No comments

Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs,

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'Blasphemous' Jesus Statue

"I think of art, at its most significant, as…a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."The first of our two Cambridge Papers on art (A window upon the world and The window is closed) began with the above quotation by the...

John Hayward   Posted: 3 September 2008   2 comments

Keywords: Worldviews & Culture,

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Interest-Free Mortgages

I must share my disappointment with today's £1 billion housing package.Twice in my life I have been helped to make a house purchase thanks to friends who were willing to extend interest-free loans and twice I have had the joy of extending the same assistance to others. So, when I heard on this morning's...

John Hayward   Posted: 2 September 2008   2 comments

Keywords: Finance & the Economy,

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Just Compensation?

Author Sir Salman Rushdie has successfully defended himself against libel and in doing so has, to quote the head of his legal team, "pioneered a new way of reconciling the right to freedom of speech with the right to reputation: you nail the lie for all time with a court-ordered declaration of falsity...

John Hayward   Posted: 27 August 2008   1 comment

Keywords: Crime & Justice,

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Pride Before A Fall?

"We want to encourage competitive sports in schools, not the 'medals for all' culture we have seen in previous years. In sport you get better by challenging yourself against other people. A lot of sports are team games where people have to work together but they play against other teams."Yesterday's...

John Hayward   Posted: 26 August 2008   1 comment

Keywords: Education, Worldviews & Culture,

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