This isn’t a post in which I am going to set out my views on the NHS White Paper issued today, I’ve only skimmed it. I am going to note in passing that some people have failed to pay attention to what the coalition parties, with a particular focus on the Liberal Democrats, were saying [...]
UK libel laws are infringing on the freedom of speech. Read Nick Cohen’s article, and the case of Simon Singh then:
SIGN THE NATIONAL PETITION FOR LIBEL REFORM
Godwin’s justly celebrated law states that as an online debate grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
After having explained Godwin’s Law Nick Cohen goes on to give an example of Godwin’s law in The Daily Mail, where AN Wilson attempts to equate the recently sacked Nutt with [...]
In a Telegraph report about the chief scientist’s views on cannabis, a likely cause of the sacking of Prof David Nutt is revealed. The cause is Gordon Brown:
Mr Brown publicly backed Mr Johnson’s decision to sack Prof Nutt and warned that the latter’s comments gave the impression the Government was sending “mixed messages” about drugs. [...]
Some people in the US seem to think Obama is Hitler, because he wants to reform their healthcare. If only Hitler had stuck to being a healthcare reformer, instead of annexing the Sudetenland…
The majority of US citizens think US health care is the best in the world. Therefore it is understandable that they would be [...]
Right wing attacks on Obama’s healthcare reform are an echo of previous attacks in the UK during Bevan’s creation of the NHS.
For UK citizens it is hard to imagine a time when the NHS was perceived as a threat. Today the NHS is a sacred object in British politics, and those who wish to [...]
John Rentoul has been running an occasional series based on headlines to which the answer is “no”. These include:
He’s the outcast bishop who denies the Holocaust – yet has been welcomed back by the Pope. But are Bishop Williamson’s repugnant views the result of a festering grudge against Marks & Spencer?
No.
Is This Atlantis?
No.
And today’s
Is [...]
The Telegraph reports:
From next month, the health secretary will lose his power to rule which jabs should form part of a national programmes to immunise children against a host of diseases.
Instead, a change in the law will mean recommendations from Government scientists on vaccinations must automatically be followed.
Critics accused the Government of “passing the buck” [...]
Here’s the motion:
That this House expresses its support for the use of the combined MMR vaccine; notes with concern the re-emergence of measles and the loss of life and long-term health problems which will afflict children as a result of the decline in the vaccination rate which followed Dr Andrew Wakefield’s now discredited research paper [...]