It’s always amusing when a ‘Guardian’ hack takes out an onion for ‘the poor’ and unwittingly reveals why they are poor: I recently spent an afternoon walking around Custom House, and everyone to whom I mentioned the name Tando told…
Tag: moral responsibility
Mankind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality…
Figures released last month from 31 police forces after an FOI request by the BBC revealed that most offences of revenge porn do not result in a criminal charge. Revenge porn – or disclosing private sexual photographs and films without…
“Slippery Slope? What Slippery Slope?” Part 58748
Bereaved families have vetoed the donation of organs from hundreds of registered donors in the last five years, new figures show. And how does the NHS take this? As one would expect, of course: The body said it would no…
Ah, But Aren’t Lawyers Always ‘The Main Beneficiaries’..?
This was a fair question that deserved a fair answer. What has a UK charity that claims to fight the trade in dog meat done with donations to an appeal? Seems like the sort of thing that there’s no harm…
Well, You’ve Watered Down ‘Racism’ To The Point It’s Utterly Meaningless…
…so why not do the same to ‘slavery’? What many of those we spoke to in Ireland during the year-long investigation found hard to accept was that some of the exploitation reported to us might be a problem of slavery,…
It’d Be Hard To Find A More Shameful CiF Article Than This One….
Priyamvada Gopal on the Texas Islamist attack: … are all victims of this contemptible violence automatically courageous? Well, yes. Yes, they are, if they know full well that they might be provoking violence from the unhinged, not to mention the…
I Don’t Know Who’s More Insane…
…the patients or the doctor who has suggested this: The NHS should consider paying patients with severe mental illness to take their medication, a leading expert has said, after a study showed that offering “modest financial incentives” significantly improved adherence…
Inculcating The Next (Dependency) Generation…
Daisy Buchanan is hard at it: …. people in their early 20s need to feel that they can be proud of their accomplishments if they’re ever going to lead their own lives. Those ‘accomplishments’ being…? Adult children do need support. And…
Is This Really Such An Ethical Dilemma?
Out of America, there is always something new. The latest example of that country’s unparalleled contribution to medical progress is the announcement by the University of Washington that its scientists had succeeded in removing the extra copy of chromosome 21…
Once Again, The Word ‘Ethics’ Seems The Wrong One To Use….
Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. And no, he isn’t talking about genetic defects, either. He’s talking about personality traits: “Indeed,…
The State Is The Problem, Not The Solution…
Lynsey Hanley (yes, her again) on the proposals for tackling ASB: In 2001 I bought a flat in the ex-council block where I’d been living since leaving university. A kind friend with an empty boot offered me a lift to…
Question: What Is ‘Starvation’?
If you answered ‘This’, congrats! If, on the other hand, you read this headline in the ‘Evening Standard’, you could be forgiven for wondering if it was still the 1st April: Because it now seems that the new definition of…
So, A Question: What Do You Think The Prospects Are…
…of a man on a £45,000 salary, who has moved out of the family home after splitting from his wife, getting a council house? OK, I thought that would be the response. If you can all stop laughing a moment,…
Take This Column With A BIIIIIG Pinch Of Salt…
Zoe Williams writes a column so bad, I can’t improve on the excellent demolition job Tim Worstall has made of it. But a few paras stuck out: …I saw plenty of counter-arguments to that, identifying poor eating habits as a…
The Child Poverty Action Group: One To Watch In 2012…
Alison Garnham believes that the coalition government is in danger of emulating Margaret Thatcher’s record on poverty. Well, great! No? No: “It has been said her governments did two things for poverty: they increased it, then they pretended it did…