Category: Ethics
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Replacing Trident: buying a better bang…
So GovUK is debating the replacement of our Trident Nuclear Capability. And I ask, why on Earth should we replace it? Whether or not you believe nuclear weaponry ever helped establish peace – and I could argue both ways – I can’t understand why nukes are in any way relevant now. The old enemy is…
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In response to chain letters…
I was going to blog about chain letters after receiving an unpleasant one today, but it turned into a ramble (as usual) about censorship and free speech. In the end I thought I’d just post my return email, in case it helps someone else with the same problems. [XXXXX] lovely. I don’t censor [miss’s] email…
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Big up Little Birdy!
Just now on the BBC News24 was film of a Mexican bull called Little Birdy, that was being ‘fought’ in a bullring in Mexico City. The film shows the huge bull leaping over the ring into the crowd, goring several spectators before it was despatched by one of the fighters. I don’t think I can…
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Dying for Fur – Inside the Chinese Fur Trade
I have a pretty strong stomach. I’ve not been in active service in the forces, and so have mercifully not seen much in terms of blood and gore beyond one car accident I happened upon. Nevertheless, I have a pretty strong stomach. But I happened upon a link today relating to the Fur Industry in…
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Extraordinary Rendition?
It’s such an unusual term… ‘extraordinary rendition’. One might, not so long ago before it hit the headlines, have expected it to mean a bravura performance by some operatic wonder, or symphonic instrumentalist.
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When I die…
One day I’m going to be dead. Not a problem for me (I’ll be dead, remember). Perhaps a problem for those left behind. So here are a few gathered thoughts, well at least one as it was the one that called me to write this – perhaps there’s an omen… /me checks outside to se…
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