I’m Chris Jenkinson, the Academic Affairs Officer at the University of Manchester Students’ Union.
Posted in Religion / secularism on Apr 17th, 2007
Saturday’s Guardian carries an opinion piece from Nicholas Buxton entitled “Face to faith” where he touts out the now-frequent line from organised religions about how atheism is also a religious movement with a dogmatic approach to everything from science to social justice. He starts his piece with this rather extraordinary sentence: “Post-Enlightment critiques of religion [...]
Posted in Education, National politics, Religion / secularism on Apr 14th, 2007
Just thought a certain comment our Dear Leader made about education just about sums up how disastrously wrong New Labour’s focus is on this matter. So much for education, education, education. Schools are not meant to be “popular with parents”, they have a duty to the children. But on the other hand, children can’t vote, [...]
Posted in Religion / secularism on Apr 14th, 2007
With all this controversy about the supermosque proposal in London (which I don’t really care about, though I am slightly concerned about the source of funding), it might be easy to forget the increasing influence Christian creationist groups have in the US. They are fighting hard to open a “museum” detailing the literal Genesis creation [...]
Posted in International politics on Sep 25th, 2006
In Manchester on a fine Saturday afternoon was the protest march against the war in Iraq organised by the Stop the War Coalition with somewhere between 20 to 50 thousand people walking around the city centre with Respect/SWP banners and silly whistles shouting things like “Bush and Blair, Go Go Go” and “who’s a terrorist, [...]
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