Prime minister's pious Easter message contrasts with joke that his Christianity is like patchy reception of Magic FM
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April 27th, 2011
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April 27th, 2011ROCK-throwing vandals are being hunted after smashing almost a dozen windows at a church in the latest in a string of attacks.
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April 27th, 2011On the Today programme this morning, Justin Webb asked Kim Howells if he thought that the straitjacket of PC, the insistence that we never speak ill of other people’s cultures and habits, helped to nurture so-called Londonistan.
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April 27th, 2011It is strange how one’s enemies shift and change: one day it’s the French, then the Welsh, then the Scots, and then the Roman Catholics. The next day it’s the Irish, then the Germans, then the Russians, followed swiftly by Darth Vader. And finally it’s – well, it’s not very clear: sundry mad mullahs of middle-eastern extraction who want to blow us all to kingdom come, or the European Union.
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April 27th, 2011LEGAL action will not be taken over the case of a Weston- super-Mare man who is thought to have died as a result of an assisted suicide.
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April 27th, 2011Chocolate bars on the medicines counter? I think not. Cigarettes next to the nicotine replacement therapy? No way. Wines and spirits on the gondola next to the waiting area? I hardly think so. Lottery tickets? Perhaps.
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April 27th, 2011I see that staff of Dignity in Dying, formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society, are planning to set up the UK's first helpline aimed at speeding the terminally ill towards 'a good death'.
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April 26th, 2011The BBC is today facing a new controversy over the way it handles death after it was revealed in both the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph that the corporation is to screen a dying man’s last breath in a programme about the human body.
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April 26th, 2011This week's disclosures from WikiLeaks confirm that Britain was a breeding ground for Islamist terrorism. But, 10 years after 9/11, we still pander to extremism, says Andrew Gilligan.
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April 26th, 2011A Catholic adoption agency has been told it cannot discriminate against gay couples in the latest outcome of an ongoing legal battle that has pitted the rights of same sex parents against religious groups who want to opt-out of anti-discrimination legislation.