The headmaster of a £28,000-a-year private school has indicated he is considering inviting a porn star to teach sex education to his pupils. Mark Slater, head of The Leys in Cambridge, said students at the historic school need to be aware of the unrealistic nature of the online material. It is vital that children are [...]
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Also posted in Economics, Education, England, Fark!, Funnies, Popular culture, Sexuality
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Tagged mark slater, prostitution, secondary education, sex education, the leys school
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… An announcement. Starting this Friday (give or take time-zone issues thanks to the blog in question being located in the US, me being in the UK, and skepticlawyer being located in Australia), I’ll be writing once a week for Thoughts on Liberty. You’ll be pleased to know I won’t be leaving here, and that [...]
“Law-abiding” citizens have “nothing to fear” from the British intelligence services, the foreign secretary says. William Hague said reports that the UK’s eavesdropping centre GCHQ had circumvented the law to gather data on British citizens were “nonsense”. But he refused to confirm or deny claims GCHQ has had access to a US spy programme called [...]
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Also posted in Defence, Funnies, Human/Civil rights, Internet, Law, Music, Personal liberty, Politics, Privacy, Public Policy, Technology, Terrorism
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Tagged GCHQ, integral, intelligence services, pet shop boys, prism, spying, william hague
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‘We must do something, here is something, let’s do that thing’ is one of the most seductive wrong routes those in power can take in the wake of an act of terror. Initially praised for his unwillingness to be drawn into the usual epidemic of jerking knees that breaks out whenever awful stuff happens in [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in England, Human/Civil rights, Law, Personal liberty, Religion
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Tagged Communications Data Bill, Drummer Lee Rigby, Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, islamism, segregation, Theresa May, Woolwich
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[A long time ago, I promised various skeptical friends that I would write a post on the idea of 'privilege', something about which I have had grave doubts for some time. Unfortunately life and work got in the way, and the post remained unwritten. However, I then made the same undertaking to various classical liberal [...]
The soldier killed in an attack in London has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Drummer Rigby, 25, from Manchester, leaves behind a two-year-old son. Two suspects shot by police after Wednesday’s attack in Woolwich remain under arrest. A further two people have been arrested on [...]
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Tagged anjem choudary, islam, lee rigby, London, michael adebolajo, ministry of defence, Nigeria, royal regiment of fusiliers
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The UK may not be able to afford projected levels of spending on military equipment over the next decade, MPs are warning. The Commons Public Accounts Committee said it did not “yet have confidence” the planned £159bn equipment budget between now and 2022 could be paid for. It urged the Ministry of Defence to be [...]
Foreign Secretary William Hague has opened a new British embassy in Mogadishu – the first time the UK has had one in Somalia since 1991. The UK is the first European Union country to reopen an embassy in the country since the Federal Government of Somalia was established last year. Mr Hague said Somalia had [...]
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Tagged foreign and commonwealth office, foreign secretary, hassan sheikh mohamud, maritime law, mogadishu, piracy, pirates of the caribbean, somali pirates, Somalia, william hague
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April 20, 2013 – 12:30 am
A giant mountain of maturing cheddar cheese is to be used as security for a pension fund. Twenty million kilos of Cathedral City cheddar will now back up pension funds of workers at Dairy Crest, one of the UK’s biggest cheesemakers. Some 20,000 pallets of the cheese, nearly half the company’s total stock, have been [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Economics, England, Fark!, Funnies
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Tagged business, cathedral city cheddar, dairy crest, finance, pension deficit, pensions, retirement, superannuation
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A seal has boarded a Royal Navy amphibious-assault ship as it was about to carry out military exercises near Carnoustie. HMS Bulwark was making preparations for the multinational training exercise Joint Warrior when the seal swam up the ship’s landing dock. The animal sat and watched the crew for about half an hour. It was [...]
