Posts in January 2013
How does homeopathy work?
Monday, Jan 7, 2013Click here to find out.Fight evil
Tuesday, Jan 8, 2013Just a reminder that if you order books from Amazon via the link on our home page, we get commission.Scouts and Guides consult on their promises
Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013The NSS reports that both the Scouts and Guides have launched consultations to ask their members and the general public if they should develop a non-religious version of the promise that children are expected to make when they join. Click here to find out how you can respond.Latest news on the proposed Steiner and Maharishi free schools in Suffolk
Friday, Jan 11, 2013Plans to open a Steiner free school in Suffolk are still being made by the people behind the Fullfledge Ecology School. The East Anglian Daily Times reports: The Fullfledge Ecology School curriculum would incorporate aspects of the Steiner approach, which is already practised at state-funded schools in other countries like America, Canada and Australia, but bidders say it would not be designated a Steiner School. The same news story mentions that plans for another free school from the Maharishi Free School Trust are also being re-submitted to the DfE.New Twitter name
Monday, Jan 14, 2013We’ve changed ourTwitter username to @suffolkhands. If you don’t already follow us, why not?Victories for common sense
Friday, Jan 25, 2013The recent European Court of Human Rights ruling on religious “discrimination” cases was just one of several significant victories. The Daily Mail, among others, reported that BA staff member Nadia Eweida had won her right to wear a crucifix to work, despite the fact that BA had already changed its uniform policy, but made less of the fact that the three other litigants, Chaplin, Ladele and McFarlane, were unsuccessful in claiming that UK courts had discriminated against them on religious grounds.