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Information is beginning to emerge about how the abortion vote on Tuesday evening was subtlely whipped by Labour.
As Conservative Home point out this morning in this great chart, the abortion vote did split roughly on party lines.
Now some of that is to do with how socially liberal Labour MPs tend to be (and socially conservative [...]
Just watched a brilliant speech in the Common by Nadine Dorries in support of her amendment to the Embryology Bill to reduce the limit for abortion to 20 weeks. Will try and get video up of it ASAP.
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A fantastic piece on being a victim by Andrew Lilico
All of us are influenced by narratives, tales of why our lives are as they are, how other people will act in certain situations and how they will react if we behave thus-and-so. Religious people may adopt accounts of how they tempted into Sin, but how [...]
This is nice and simple. I challenge absolutely anybody who is in favour of maintaining the limit on abortions to do the following:
Read this piece from yesterday’s Telegraph
Explain coherently why it would have been moral to inject Ellie-Suzanne’s heart with poison to kill her and then to dismember her before removing the body parts a [...]
Continue reading about An Open Challenge to those in Favour of Retaining 24 Weeks
Reuben and I couldn’t sleep, so we decided to go for a drive, pick up a Daily Mail and McD’s breakfast and see if that helped. On returning home, we read the frontpage of the Mail and decided to work out whether the Labour Party’s U-Turn really did help the poorest who were affected by [...]
This delightful (and genuine) piece of irony via Guido.
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Here in the UK (and I guess elsewhere if my friends in the US are anything to go by) the price of petrol ("gas" for you colonists) has shot up in the last few weeks. Only yesterday the price per litre for diesel was 120p at my local Tesco Garage. A search on petrolprices.com shows [...]
You’ll have seen the story in the past few days that the European Court of Human Rights ruled against a couple of elderly sisters who wanted to have the same inheritance tax rights as two women in a Civil Partnership. Here’s the Telegraph’s report:
In a 15-2 vote, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg [...]
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For my UK readers, considering whether to vote in tomorrow’s local and mayoral elections, here’s the video I did three years ago for the last General Election.
Remember, if you don’t vote, you let others change everything.
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Nadine Dorries reports how it doesn’t get any better than this in terms of the 10p tax debacle.
Stood at the till paying for my toasted tea cake and tea just as the lovely members’ tea room staff were handed their pay slips.
Pay slip time is always a collegiate thing when money matters.
The first member to [...]
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The BBC is reporting today about a petition to change the rules in Scotland on blood donation.
A petition by gay rights campaigners against what they believe is discrimination over who can give blood is to be considered by MSPs.
The LGBT Network said safe sex practices meant men who have had sex with other men could [...]
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Cranmer has the best summary and comment on this story by far:
The Christians who sued Google
Not quite as bold as ‘The man who sued God’, but it is manifestly a David and Goliath battle which is to be admired, for the outcome has considerable implications for Christians in the areas of equality and freedom [...]
In another extraordinary piece of bad PR, the Chinese Government is employing the same unit that killed people in Tibet last month to guard the olympic flame.
The Chinese guards of the Olympic flame seen fending off protesters in London and Paris are elite members of the paramilitary units which crushed dissent in Tibet, it has [...]
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It’s very simple Mr Darling and Mr Brown. If you take away someone’s 10% tax rate and replace it with a 20% tax rate, they will pay more tax.
Genius.
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Continue reading about The truth behind the Labour “Tax Cut”
