Paul Diamond: I have seen the future and it doesn't work. The debate in Australia over a charter of rights is similar to the debate in 1998 in Britain.
In the News
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October 30th, 2009
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October 30th, 2009
During the lunch break on the second day of the International Legal Conference on Freedom of Speech and Religion, James Cohen of the Canadian chapter of IFPS interviewed Lord Pearson, a member of the House of Lords and a leader of UKIP, at the Capitol in Washington D.C.
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October 30th, 2009
Cambridge University is to allow female Muslim students to wear burkhas under their mortar boards at graduation ceremonies, it emerged today.
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October 30th, 2009
Plans have been unveiled to turn an historic mills complex into a boarding school for up to 5,000 Muslim girls.
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October 30th, 2009
After a study revealed that several people seeking assisted suicide in Switzerland didn?t have a terminal illness, the Swiss cabinet is reconsidering assisted suicide laws.
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October 30th, 2009
Anti-Christian bigotry is rife throughout the United Kingdom, and Christians are being targeted and persecuted for expressing their religious beliefs about homosexuality. The Racial and Religious Hatred Act passed in 2006 has given anti-Christian bigots the power to criminalize Christianity.
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October 30th, 2009
Some women fear they were implanted with somebody else's baby after IVF lab errors.
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October 29th, 2009
The row over the reclassification of cannabis has been reignited after the government's chief drug adviser accused ministers of 'distorting' the evidence.
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October 29th, 2009
The Government?s chief drug adviser has suggested that Ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than both alcohol and cigarettes.
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October 29th, 2009
The Department of Health is under scrutiny at the High Court in Belfast for the appalling guidelines on the Termination of Pregnancy in Northern Ireland which it issued in the summer - conveniently when our Assembly was on recess and most of us were on holiday.