Plans for Human Rights Act to be scrapped in UK

Currently the UK is legally bound via the 1998 Human Rights Act to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). That however is about to change. What we currently have in place has three main effects. These are as follows: 1. It incorporates the rights set out in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) … Read more

Professor A C Grayling’s letter to all 650 MPs – #BREXIT

The well-known philosopher and founder of the New Humanities college, A C Grayling has written a letter to all 650 MPs regarding the #BREXIT vote. The letter has been posted on the New College of Humanities website and has the following note added to it … Please note: The following letter expresses the personal views … Read more

What happens to UK Science after the #BREXIT shock?

“WE can go it alone, we don’t need them” has been a LEAVE stance, and yet if the UK is indeed to thrive outside the EU then there will need to be a considerable scientific investment to make up for the sudden absence of EU funding. It also of course goes way beyond the pure … Read more

Religious group demands airtime on BBC

So the news is that Voice for Justice UK, a religious group, has presented a 12,000 signature petition to the BBC demanding that the BBC should not take up proposals to reduce Christian programs and that they should also fire their current Head of Religion and Ethics, Aaqil Amhed, simply because he is not Christian. Their representative, … Read more

#BREXIT #EURef – Will the UK really leave the EU?

It appears to be starting to dawn on many that it is distinctly possible that the UK is not actually about to quit the EU even if every politician going is parroting “the people have spoken, we must respect that” line. A comment has appeared under a Guardian article that is now widely being shared, and … Read more

What happens now that #BREXIT has become a reality? – #EURef

(Rant Mode on) I never believed it and simply did not grasp that it would actually happen. Why not? Well because I simply did not think that we had a sufficiently large enough number of utterly stupid people who were so bereft of any and all common sense that they were unable to see that the LEAVE … Read more