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Daylight Atheism (Free subscription) | yesterday
While we Americans have been focusing on this week's elections, there was another important piece of the news from across the Atlantic you might have missed: the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against displaying crucifixes in state-run Italian schools. A panel of seven judges in Strasbourg said the display of Christian crosses, which is [...]
The Flashing Blade (Free subscription) | yesterday
I missed one of the few home games of le Racing since I’ve been back in Strasbourg but I’m pleased that they won 2-0 against Istres, a team who beat le Racing 6-1 at the beginning of the season, so progress and a move away from the bottom three and relegation positions. I hope to [...]
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tony Blair was no enthusiast for Proportional Representation. He gave it to new bodies to indicate that he didn't think they mattered. But his introduction of the party list system for Strasbourg, while certainly having that motivation, also had another. The old European Parliamentary Labour Party had been a rich seam of dissent over many long years. Almost all of it was duly purged. To that end, the...
Pedestrian Infidel (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE GUARDIAN: Church insists it is not like the US right, but many fear growth of a political force As the piano strikes up, the congregation sways, palms to the ceiling, fists in the air, murmurs of hallelujah punctuating the music. Pastor Franck Lefillatre, besuited and bathed in the spotlight on his podium, intones into a microphone. "Let out the words that are in your heart," he urges....
Archbishop Cranmer (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cranmer has received quite a few emails asking why he has not commented upon this story. The short answer is that His Grace is not a news service: he comments upon whatever he wants to whenever he wishes. And there really is not much to add to this , this or this . God forbid that schoolchildren might ever again have such an oppressive and disturbing art project as this imposed upon them. Essentially,...
The Flashing Blade (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In the last post I wrote about Autumnal changes taking place locally. As well as the colours of the trees and other changes I wrote about the trees being pollarded, well more I showed pictures of the trees being pollarded, in the centre of Strasbourg. Here’s the same area, just the opposite side of Place [...]
Information Policy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Strasbourg, 03.11.2009 – The Council of Europe will be calling for greater protection and respect for human rights, rule of law and democracy on the Internet at the 2009 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 15-18 November in Sharm el Sheikh...
Ansa (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Strasbourg ruling 'not coercive' says Berlusconi
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Will Heaven over at the Telegraph, has commented on the recent ruling by the European Court to ban all Crucifixes in Italian schools because one atheist mother was offended. He concludes with this statement:- Telegraph So, we have a court in Strasbourg overruling the Italian courts in favour of one persistent atheist. It goes without saying that most [...]
We The Free (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
clipped from www.moonbattery.com Sometimes it seems liberal Euroweenies are deliberately testing to see just how much totalitarian moonbattery they can ram down people's throats before encountering significant resistance. In the latest outrage against liberty and national sovereignty, bureaucrats of the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that Italians cannot have crucifixes on the walls of their...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Wise pleads guilty - by Richard... Thursday, November 05, 2009So says The Times, having changed his plea. I always knew he was a wrong 'un, from the day I drove him to Strasbourg. The guy had no interest at all in fighting the EU – the only thing he talked about was making money. The paper says he could go to prison.COMMENT THREADPrint readySurrender monkeys - by Richard..."Do-nothing"...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
So says The Times , having changed his plea. I always knew he was a wrong 'un, from the day I drove him to Strasbourg. The guy had no interest at all in fighting the EU – the only thing he talked about was making money. The paper says he could go to prison. COMMENT THREAD
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Bulgarian Constitution makes it impossible to bring criminal charges against the Chief Public Prosecutor against his will even in case of murder, the court in Strasbourg has concluded. In its ruling on what has been described as the unlawful detention of senior Bulgarian Prosecutor Nikolai Kolev and the ineffective investigation into his murder, the European Court of Human Rights criticized the...
Craig Hickman's Tennis Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I hope the new stadium, if built, has lights. The federation announced this year a project to build a new center court with a retractable roof that could be in use by 2013 or 2014. The new 14,600-seat stadium would be located just under 500 yards from the current center court and surrounded by two other smaller, covered arenas at a cost of $177 million. The project is reportedly facing opposition...
Torchlight (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
This story comes to us from AKI; Rome, 4 Nov. (AKI) - A decision by the European Court of Human Rights opposing the presence of crucifixes in Italian classrooms has provoked a furious response from the Italian government and the...
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