It was obvious on Friday that the Government were putting out anything they possibly could in order to close down the negative press reaction to the "granny tax" fiasco.
In the News
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March 27th, 2012
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March 27th, 2012Creating “gay marriage,” is an attempt to rewrite the natural law and “recreate society,” says Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow.
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March 27th, 2012The Riots, Communities and Victims Panel report is due to be published tomorrow. Today Sky News reported they had a leaked copy of the report which concludes that factors including lack of confidence in the police and materialism were also causes of the riots.
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March 27th, 2012What was the most vilified religion in Scotland in 2010-2011? Not Islam – only 2.1 percent of religious hate crimes were directed against Muslims. Not Judaism – only 2.3 percent were directed against Jews. According to a report by the Scottish government, 95 percent of all religious hate crimes were directed against Christians.
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March 27th, 2012MARSEILLE, FRANCE // Mohamed Merah's short but lethal career as a self-proclaimed Islamist warrior, killing soldiers and Jewish children to avenge Palestinians and punish French military involvement in Afghanistan, has focused new attention on France's home-grown extremists.
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March 27th, 2012Slovenians turn down same-sex marriage, European Dignity Watch reported yesterday. The electorate, in a post-legislative referendum, has overturned the provisions in Slovenia’s new Family Code legalizing same-sex marriage that was adopted by the Balkan country’s parliament in June 2011.
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March 27th, 2012In a disparaging analysis of religious programming, the Rt Revd Nick Baines claimed major television networks chose to ignore faith as if it had become "a toxic contaminator of decent culture”.
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March 27th, 2012This time the discussion about assisted suicide isn’t as straightforward as usual. The issue, whose proponents have made it rather finicky, is back in Parliament being debated today.
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March 27th, 2012MPs have backed the "realistic and compassionate" official prosecution guidelines on assisted dying.
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March 27th, 2012A student rebellion has crushed an attempt to ban free discussion of abortion at a leading British university.