Released this last week is the End of Life Care Patient Charter from the Royal College of General Practitioners in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing. The language used at times and the focus on autonomy and choice leaves it open to exploitation by pro-euthanasia groups, who have been quick to affirm it. Perhaps [...]
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In some ways I feel we should all hang our heads in shame. Social care of the old and needy was sold off to speculators who made their profit and now it is going down the pan. The speculators need not panic though as they will have learned the lessons from the bail-out of the [...]
In the House of Commons there is growing momentum behind the campaign to protect freedom of speech by making a much needed crucial change to public order laws. MPs from across the political parties have co-signed an amendment to remove ‘insulting’ words or behaviour from the scope of Section 5 of the Public Order Act. [...]
It seems Nestlé have discovered a brain food that is supposed to prevent Alzheimer’s in dogs. Medium chain triglycerides are the key, found in coconut fat. I’ll have a bar of that then! Bet they wished they made bounty.
Civil Partnerships Government Consultation
Posted: 26th May 2011 by graham in Church, Culture, news_commentThe Government are consulting on allowing religious bodies to hold homosexual civil partnerships. I am very uncomfortable about this. The Government insists that their proposals would not compel ministers to allow civil partnerships in their churches. I find that difficult to believe. It was in 2005 that homosexual adoption was made legal, yet within three [...]
World to End Tomorrow
Posted: 20th May 2011 by graham in church culture, Global, My life, news_commentI have just heard. I am sitting in a coffee shop and was browsing through then news on my phone when I saw it in then BBC website. The world is due to be traumatized by the rapture of all Christians on Saturday according to a crackpot in the USA . What amuses me about [...]
Religious people make better neighbours says Sacks
Posted: 9th June 2011 by graham in Culture, news_comment, preach_it!The chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, argues for the value of religion. Sacks is quoted in a Guardian article. He writes: “A powerful store of social capital still exists. It is called religion: the churches, synagogues and other places of worship that still bring people together in shared belonging and mutual responsibility. The evidence shows that [...]