Council inadvertently sums up absurd notion of “religious” child.
Religious kids not brainwashed properly, says Islington council
Yvette Cooper to slate government laxity on hate crime
Labour plans to tighten laws on hate crime.
Unite slams cuts in oil that risk ‘another Piper Alpha’
ABERDEEN – The trade union Unite has warned that spending cuts and job losses in oil could prompt another disaster on the scale of Piper Alpha’s, which led to the death of 167 people in 1988.
Tumbling oil prices in the last few weeks have led to a series of cuts in the sector, with energy consultant Wood Mackenzie estimating $170bn (£113bn) worth of cuts will be needed to maintain debt levels.
Reporting IS beheadings only spurs on the jihadists. We should stop it
News broke today that Islamic State (IS) terrorists have apparently beheaded the Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
Should the video be verified, which seems likely at this point, it will be only the latest in a series of such killings committed to video tape. Around August last year the American journalist James Foley was murdered in the same manner, prompting the US to start a military campaign against IS.
Leftist think tank advises Ukip not to bash Islam
In the wake of the slaughter at Charlie Hebdo in Paris the question of Muslim integration in the West has only become more vexed, but a report from the leftist think tank British Future (BF) is suggesting that it is “unlikely” to play a part in the general election in May.
A survey carried out by the group showed that 58 percent of Britons believed that most Muslims in the UK opposed the extremism and violence of IS, while 12 thought the opposite (the remainder were neutral or did not know).