The dehumanising effect of animal personhood
To argue that owning a pet is the same as being a parent is to dehumanise a child. Animal rights and human rights are not mutually exclusive but we when our fight for animal rights involves assigning personhood to animals we need to re-examine our priorities.
First Political Memory
The Young Foundation is inviting people to share their first political memory. The First Political Memory Project aims to: reconnect people’s everyday lives with politics through collecting and sharing stories of when people first became aware of the bigger world around them. I grew up in a very political household so trying to identify my [...]
Only a racist votes for a racist party
We need to be consistent in our condemnation of the BNP and its supporters. If the party is racist then so are its followers and maybe its time to revoke its political party status
Blog Day 2006
In celebration of International BlogDay2006, here are five blogs that are different from my own culture, point of view and attitude.
History repeated
In an article entitled Honour Amongst Thieves Guardian columnist Philip Hensher offers an interesting argument in favour of Western nations keeping hold of historical artifacts and national treasures that rightfully belong to African nations. Using Sudan as an example he states that; In many instances, national treasures are better off outside their countries of origin [...]
