Archive for March, 2011

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Zimbabwe: Monsters and mass graves

By Bruce Gorton | 31 March 2011

Zimbabwe is currently exhuming a mass grave that Zanu-PF dates back to the Ian Smith era. Pathologists, are not so sure – there seems to be an awful lot of flesh on some of those old bones.

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Animal rights terrorism

By Bruce Gorton | 30 March 2011

A war has been declared on biology students in the US, a war declared by moronic sanctimonious idiots noted primarily as sources of smug. I am speaking of course, of loony fringe animal rights activists.

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Should quackery be protected speech?

By Bruce Gorton | 29 March 2011

Consider a case over a dead baby in France at the moment.

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For peace to be sustainable and just…

By Bruce Gorton | 28 March 2011

Reading the Guardian I hit a story about how half of Afghanistan’s female prison population is in jail – for trying to escape abusive spouses.

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Sticking with the ANC

By Bruce Gorton | 28 March 2011

Personally I have never really been comfortable with the tripartite alliance.

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An open letter to the old atheists

By Bruce Gorton | 25 March 2011

Biology is considered quite a technical field – with many areas of it that are quite impenatrable, or even uninteresting to your average layperson atheist.

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Banking regulation – I’m dubious

By Bruce Gorton | 16 March 2011

The new measures to finally, after decades of people moaning, do something about South Africa’s high bank charges leave me a little dubious.

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Jails getting renamed

By Bruce Gorton | 15 March 2011

If I ever become an icon or a hero for a struggle - please don’t name a prison after me.

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Balance is basically a bad thing

By Bruce Gorton | 15 March 2011

One of the big trends over the last decade has been the idea of “balanced” coverage – and this balance hasn’t actually been good news. Read More…

Saudi: More lessons from the Middle-East

By Bruce Gorton | 10 March 2011

If you want to see why it matters to keep religion out of the affairs of state – you just need to look to the Middle East.

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