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There was a most extraordinary article in the Press the other day which was headlined as follows:

“Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say. Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9113394/Killing-babies-no-different-from-abortion-experts-say.html

The article, entitled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”, was written by two Professors who have apparently since decamped to live in Australia, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.

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With the UK currently having the rotating chair for the European Court of Human Rights and David Cameron visiting it to deliver a speech to all 47 members with the theme of reforming the way it operates, there is a fluttering in the Dove Cots of the “European Elite” ever prepared to defend their entrenched positions of privilege. As with many things, the actual “truth” behind the operation of the ECHR and our own, one suspects, very badly drafted Human Rights Act may well be fairly complex and difficult to unravel if left only to the Lawyers.

However, the political reality is all too apparent as the recent decision that the radical cleric Abu Qatada cannot be deported to Jordan where he comes from, is a case in point. David Cameron or even Ed Miliband if he were the current British Prime Minister, cannot ignore the political realities even when you warn that “Hard Cases make bad laws…”

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Yesterday, there was a report published by a self appointed committee into the question of changing the Law within the UK to allow assisted suicide. The committee was headed by Lord Faulkner and was set up by Dignity in Dying, a lobby group, and paid for by the author Sir Terry Pratchett, who has Alzheimer’s disease and is campaigning for changes to allow assisted suicide.

To that extent one may rightly argue that it represents a bias and therefore taints its conclusions in the same way that a “Tory Think Tank” publishing a report recommending that people should vote Conservative would. However and within all this lies something else to my mind, the whole discussion holds up a mirror to what is becoming a Narcissistic society that has lost touch not just with religious values but with the values that have underpinned humanity throughout the ages and regardless of time and place.

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I cannot claim to be any kind of fan of the journalist Yasmin Alibhai Brown who writes in The Independent, she is one of those people like the equally awful Janet Daley in The Telegraph, that I read from time to time instead of wearing a hair shirt or sackcloth and ashes or, as a means of not just “reading the stuff I like”.

However, in reading her (AliBaba) today I was shocked by just how irrational and bigoted a journalist in a broadsheet can be, the woman is a total loon or else, personally envious of Theresa May for some personal reason or other as the start of the article demonstrates only too well, check it out, really sad : http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-we-must-defend-these-laws-which-protect-us-all-2368147.html

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Having taken a tiny netbook on holiday with me, I have browsed the British media from abroad which is quite amusing, the BBC in America carries adverts ! There was an interesting John Rentoul Blog that caught my attention: http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/25/cameron-and-detail/

The question being posed concerned the issue of whether or not, DNA evidence collected by the Police during the course of an investigation should be retained “On File” even though the individual was not charged with any kind of offence. It is an interesting problem which could be argued either way, my views are as follows:

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We have a scandal involving the now, former Managing Director of the international Monitory Fund Dominique Strauss Khan being accused of the rape of a Chamber Maid in an upmarket New York hotel. For a whole number of reasons, it really is a quite extraordinary tale that at this stage of events, raises far more questions than it provides answers.

There are a couple of very well written articles in the Economist on this which are worth reading: http://www.economist.com/node/18712833 and http://www.economist.com/node/18712515

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Although to be expected from a left leaning newspaper written by and for the “Chattering Metropolitan Classes”, there was an interesting Editorial in the Independent on whether capturing Osama Bin Laden would have been better than shooting him and then burying him at sea. Whilst I think that the Americans were correct, it is a valid question to raise: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-the-nagging-questions-that-refuse-to-go-away-2278947.html

If you read the article, do read the comments from readers, we seem to have our fair share of ‘conspiracy theorists’ here in the UK today.

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Once again I notice, The Independent has ‘A’ level students writing their Editorials and in this case, on the European Court of Human Rights. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-britain-should-stick-to-the-human-rights-gold-standard-2236059.html

However and hopefully, part of writing a blog like this is to consider issues and develop your own thinking on them and in this regard, I am grateful for what was a rubbish Editorial for provoking me into thinking about the “Real Issue” behind all this.

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There was an interesting article by John Rentoul in the Independent on how David Cameron risks being caught between a ‘pincer movement’ by the Tory Right and the Liberal Elite over the European Court of Human Rights: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-a-pincer-movement-on-no-10-2219869.html#comment-153134186

But as is often the case, it led me to think somewhat beyond the current difficulties of ‘Votes for Prisoners’ and the right for convicted people to ask to be removed from the Sex Offenders Register after a period of time, it leads me to wonder about the practical limits on political power.

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There was a report published the other day by a Right of Centre, Think Tank called Policy Exchange ( http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/ ). Read it for yourself, I am sure that there will be those that ‘object’ but the truth is that this organisation is no ‘Fascist Outfit’ and is in most things, intelligently directed and driven by thinking people.

The report in essence, suggests that the UK should involve itself in a renegotiation of the way this Court works over some two years and failing any reasonable progress, withdraw from its jurisdiction, make the UK Supreme Court the ultimate arbiter whilst “noting any suitable judgements made by the ECHR” along the way and over future years: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/8307782/UK-should-withdraw-from-European-Court-of-Human-Rights.html

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