A former BBC employee who strongly believes in the ethos of public service broadcasting will be allowed to bring a discrimination case against the corporation under laws designed to protect religious faiths, a tribunal has ruled.
In the News
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May 9th, 2011
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May 9th, 2011I see that Margo MacDonald has been re-elected as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) and has vowed to revive proposals for a law to legalise ‘assisted dying’ (a specious euphemism for assisted suicide and euthanasia).
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May 9th, 2011Homosexual men are more likely to have had cancer than heterosexual men, a US study has suggested.
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May 9th, 2011There have been calls for the Nigerian government to intervene after 17 Christians were killed last week in an attack by Muslims.
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May 9th, 2011Changing the law to legalise assisted suicide would put pressure on disabled people to kill themselves, according to new research into patients' fears.
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May 8th, 2011Egypt's justice minister has warned that those who threaten the country's security will face "an iron fist".
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May 8th, 2011Egypt's caretaker government has held crisis talks after attacks by Muslim mobs on Coptic Christian churches in Cairo left at least 12 people dead and drove the country's growing religious tensions to the brink.
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May 8th, 2011The Church of England could lose all but a handful of its 26 bishops from the House of Lords under reforms being drawn up by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
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May 8th, 2011The government has been told that it may be risking causing offence to Muslims living in Ireland who wish to engage in polygamous marriages.
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May 8th, 2011Dear all Compass direct have posted a story of a mentally ill Pakistani Christian who has been arrested for a purported blasphemy.