June 14, 2010
When Peter Singer contrasted the ability of a prawn swimming across Botany Bay and making a choice whether to turn left or right, with the lack of ability to make a choice on the part of a new born baby – he concluded that the right to life was intrinsically tied to a being’s capacity [...]
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November 7, 2009
Back when Noah was still drawing up the blueprint for his Ark, long before I was born, my Aunt stood against a certain Bessie Braddock as Conservative candidate for St Anne’s Ward in Liverpool. Aunty vanished without trace of course, apart from one vote found lying under the counting officer’s table, probably, though not certainly, [...]
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