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Power Dressing

May 16, 2012 – 4:00 am

SAN FRANCISCO _ Dressed in his trademark hoodie and jeans, Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg kicked off a cross-country road show to pitch his company’s initial public stock offering. Hundreds of institutional investors stood in long lines Monday to pile into a ballroom at New York’s Sheraton Hotel to hear the billion-dollar pitch from the [...]

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One doesn’t or, jam and ‘Jerusalem’ all round, I think…

April 17, 2012 – 8:04 pm

Not in Britain you don’t, no: It was the moment that conservative Christian groups’ growing stridency in the British political arena went too far, at least for Boris Johnson. On Thursday evening the London mayor gave the clearest sign yet that radical religion and politics still do not mix in the UK when he slapped an almost instant ban on [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Britain, Fark!, Free Speech, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (16)

I always feel like, somebody’s watching me…

April 5, 2012 – 6:00 am

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time. The Home Office says the move is key to tackling [...]

By DeusExMacintosh | Also posted in Britain, Defence, Fark!, Free Speech, Funnies, Internet, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Politics, Popular culture, Privacy, Public Policy, Society, Terrorism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

Defined out – guest post by Lorenzo

March 22, 2012 – 1:42 pm

[SL: Last night, I went to a debate hosted by the Edinburgh University Debates Union (sic), on the proposition 'this house supports same-sex marriage'. I was going to say that the Oxford Union it ain't, but that would be giving them too much credit. Let's just say that 'outstandingly crap' goes some way towards describing it. [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Feminism, Guest Post, Law, Marriage, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged , , , , | Comments (18)

The Religious Education Dilemma, Again

February 17, 2012 – 3:02 pm

We just got a notice from my daughter’s state school yesterday inviting us to choose which religious education class we’d like to enrol her in. There were a multitude of choices: Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Ba’hai, Buddhist and Hindu (an accurate reflection the nature of her school, I think). Finally, there was the choice to ‘opt [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Law, Parenthood, Personal, Philosophy, Religion, Skeptics, Society | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (45)

Advice, please…

February 10, 2012 – 8:50 am

We try to avoid meta around these parts, but the trainwreck on the #equalmarriage thread has prompted some necessary thinking on all our parts, and an admission from me. First, the thinking. This blog — in having four writers with differing politics — is a risky venture. Going by other blogs around the traps, a [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Blogging, Fark!, Feminism, Free Speech, Law, Marriage, Middle east, Skeptics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (56)

Review of ‘Freedom of Religion & The Secular State’

February 9, 2012 – 7:40 am

On 2 February 2012, I attended the launch of Russell Blackford’s new book, Freedom of Religion and the Secular State. I’ve finished the book so I thought I’d write a brief review as well as some comments on the visible move to secularism in one of my areas of study, trusts law. Blackford’s central thesis [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Academia, Australia, Blogging, Free Speech, History, Law, Personal liberty, Philosophy, Politics, Public Policy, Religion, Skeptics, Society | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (11)

When one’s IQ is less than one’s shoe size, and we’re only talking one shoe…

January 27, 2012 – 8:36 pm

I am stealing this observation from regular commenter Nick Ferrett, because it bears repeating: So Tony Hodges, the PM’s senior media advisor has resigned after disclosing to the tent embassy people that Abbott was at the Lobby Restaurant with Gillard. OK, you people are now officially too stupid to be in government. Leave aside the morality [...]

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Homosexual panic defence

January 19, 2012 – 6:44 am

A good post by Lorenzo on the “homosexual panic defence” and what it means for the status of women and gay men. Please go and read it. I would add that homosexual panic defence has become an issue again after a recent case in Queensland where one of the defendants attempted unsuccessfully to claim the [...]

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It’s those Platonic Guardians again…

January 3, 2012 – 10:48 pm

The Leveson Inquiry, as readers of this blog well know, has exposed Britain’s tabloid media in ways that shouldn’t just make journalists or newspaper proprietors ashamed. The exposure has also shamed, by extension, the British public, as well as emphasizing the gulf between those who don’t read tabloid newspapers and those who do. Just as [...]

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