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Entries in May, 2008

Abortion and the irrelevant viability test (yes, again)

Monday, May 26th, 2008

A letter in the Sunday Times exposes the irrelevance of the viability test to the abortion debate, which should be the centre-piece of the defence of women’s right to choose [More >>>]

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What to do about the petrol, food and house price yo-yo

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Sheep and goats can readily be told apart by the remedies they propose for the steep rise in petrol and food prices.  Sheep demand government action to bring down petrol prices, for example by suspending or even permanently reducing tax and duty on petrol ('gas' in US parlance):  examples are the London Sunday Times, and [...]

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Website’s ‘Contact’ facility working again; ‘Search’ not

Monday, May 26th, 2008

‘Contact’ facility (for messages to me from this website) now works again after a long time out of order, but ‘search’ still awaiting a fix [More >>>]

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Barack Obama’s book

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Barack Obama’s book ‘Dreams from My Father’ is an extraordinary chronicle of Obama’s progress from personal isolation to reforming vision: essential reading whether or not he wins the Presidency [More >>>]

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Abortion and the viability test fallacy (with update 11 May 08)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Even David Steel, father of the great abortion reform Act of 1967, commits himself to the fallacious and dangerous idea that abortion should be banned once the foetus becomes ‘viable’. Acceptance of this will ultimately cause abortion to be completely banned once again: it’s time to abandon it [More >>>]

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Why Livingstone lost to Johnson

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Why Ken lost: five factors that doomed his campaign to failure [More >>>]

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