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Opinion: Talking at cross purposes about equal marriage

By Joe Otten | Sat 9th February 2013 - 4:33 pm

While it is tempting to be triumphal at success of the vote on equal marriage, I have some sympathy for some of the opponents. Not for the bigots of course – but while all bigots will oppose equal marriage, the converse isn’t true, and some opponents are genuinely unhappy at the idea of parliamentary vote to, as they see it, change the meaning of a word.

Now that may seem to many of us an odd thing to get upset about – although I would be quite unhappy if Parliament attempted to change the value of …

Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged chocolate and equal marriage | 145 Comments

Daily View 2×2: 4 December 2009

By Helen Duffett | Fri 4th December 2009 - 8:27 am

It’s December 4th, and 210 years since the day William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax to help pay for the Napoleonic Wars. By that time, The Observer (the world’s first Sunday newspaper) was already celebrating its ninth birthday.

2 Must-Read Blog Posts

What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:

Sally Bercow is only human like the rest of us
Mark Thompson speaks up for the Speaker’s wife’s right to speak up.
There Have Been Too Many Goodbyes….
Stephen Glenn speaks up for anonymous blogs, and laments the passing of another one.

Spotted any other great posts in the last day from blogs that aren’t on the aggregator? Do post up a comment sharing them with us all.

2 Big Stories

MPs to go clubbing to investigate cocaine trade

The Commons home affairs committee, led by Labour’s Keith Vaz, will look at what goes on during “student nights”.

Members will look at the latest cocaine-detecting technology and talk to anti-drugs campaigners.

Labour MP Gwyn Prosser has already spent time outside a nightclub in Maidstone, Kent, as part of the committee’s preliminary research.

Posted in Daily View | Also tagged keith vaz, mark thompson, sally bercow, stephen glenn, the observer and william pitt the younger | Leave a comment

Reasons to doubt that Darwin poll

By Mark Pack | Wed 11th February 2009 - 11:54 am

Last week, an opinion poll supposedly showing relatively low levels of public belief in Darwin’s theory of evolution did the media rounds. Typical was this write-up from the Daily Telegraph:

Poll reveals public doubts over Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Belief in creationism is widespread in Britain, according to a new survey.

Having heard some more coverage of the poll this morning, I thought I’d take a look at what the poll actually said. It was conducted by ComRes, a reputable polling firm (and, regularly readers of my posts about BPIX will be glad to hear, a member of the British Polling …

Posted in News | Also tagged bpix, charles darwin, comres and daily telegraph | 11 Comments

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Opinion: Talking at cross purposes about equal marriage