Articles
Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
Symphysiotomy – Ireland’s brutal alternative to caesareans
They were never asked for their consent – but symphysiotomy caused the Irish mothers subjected to it catastrophic long-term health problems. Symphysiotomy is a controversial operation that was seldom used in the rest of Europe after…
Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
Churches facilitate social integration, research suggests
Churches are among the few places in the UK that successfully bring people together from different ethnic backgrounds and from different financial circumstances, new research for the Social Integration Commission suggests. The commission appointed Ipsos Mori…
Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
Do kids know the true meaning of Christmas?
Roger Bolton writing in the Radio Times asks the question: ‘Do British schoolchildren know what Christmas is?’ In some schools in this country, little is taught about the true meaning of Christmas, possibly because secular staff…
Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
No room at the inn for baby Jesus in school nativities
As annual school nativity play season gets under way, survey shows baby Jesus being edged out to make room for Elvis, spacemen, footballers and Lord Sugar. Christianity is being banished from school nativity plays as the…
Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
GCHQ to help tackle 'dark net' child abuse images
Intelligence experts and organised crime specialists will join forces to tackle child abuse images on the ‘dark net’, David Cameron has said. The prime minister said a joint GCHQ and National Crime Agency unit would hunt…
Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
Pakistan: Peshawar school massacre
145 families have lost precious members after six gunmen walked from classroom to classroom in a school killing-spree. It’s Pakistani Taliban’s deadliest attack to date. They shot at random until army commandos arrived at the scene.…