It isn't every day you hear someone issuing death threats on the Today programme, but yesterday morning's report on an arson attack on the home of the London publisher of The Jewel of the Medina, a novel about Mohamed's youngest wife, included one remark that struck me as coming close to an incitement to murder.
In the News
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September 30th, 2008
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September 30th, 2008
A future Conservative government would offer counselling to couples about to get married, shadow schools secretary Michael Gove has said.
People should not have to feel they were "on their own" when building a relationship, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. -
September 30th, 2008
Catholics must oppose plans to liberalise the abortion laws, the Archbishop of Cardiff said yesterday.
In a letter and a leaflet to parish priests in England and Wales, the Most Rev Peter Smith warned that amendments to be voted on this year in the Commons would make abortions easier and more widespread and lead to the possibility of teenage girls taking abortion pills alone at home. -
September 30th, 2008
Prospective parliamentary candidate Margot James believes the Conservative Party really has changed its attitude to homosexuality?not just in the Cameroonian salons of fashionable Notting Hill but in the rural heartlands as well.
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September 30th, 2008
Channel 4 has unveiled plans to broadcast a sex education series in the morning despite the fact that young children could be watching.
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September 30th, 2008
Mentally ill children are still being failed by the NHS in England, the children's commissioner says.
Sir Al Aynsley-Green acknowledged progress since his audit 18 months ago but said there was a "long way to go". -
September 30th, 2008
Serious academic study is being treated as "blasphemy" in schools as timetables become increasingly focused on cutting teenage pregnancy, drug abuse and obesity, leading headmasters have warned.
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September 29th, 2008
A council has been forced to reverse a policy allowing only Muslim burials to take place at weekends.
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September 29th, 2008
IVF doctor due before medical panel.
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September 29th, 2008
A vicar claims a partial victory saying his diocese has admitted he was employed by the church and not God.