Deceptikons: Liberal Opinion and PoliticsLiberal Opinion & Analysis of British Politics & Current Affairs from a centre-left point of view. Includes articles on Human Rights Issues, Religion and UK Government Policy.Road to Guantanamo Actors Detained- February 21, 2006 It has emerged the actors who star in movie The Road to Guantanamo were questioned by police at Luton airport under anti-terrorism legislation. The actors were returning from the Berlin Film Festival where the film won a Silver Bear award.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=214.xml David Irving Jailed for Holocaust Denial- February 20, 2006 Disgraced British Historian David Irving was jailed for three years today after pleading guilty to the charge of "Holocaust denial" in an Austrian Court.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=213.xml MP's Back Full Smoking Ban- February 14, 2006 MP's have backed a complete ban on smoking in pubs and private members clubs by a majority of 200 votes. In a free vote in the House of Commons, MP's rejected alternatives for a partial ban which would have exempted non-food serving pubs and private members' clubs and another alternative which would have exempted just private members' clubs.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=212.xml ID Cards Sent back to the Lords- February 14, 2006 After a crucial vote the Government staved off a back bench revolt and sent the bill back to the House of Lords largely unchanged with a majority of just 31. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats together with 20 Labour rebels voted against the proposals.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=211.xml Two-Jags in Education 3-point turn- February 6, 2006 Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott or "Two-jags" as he is known colloquially, has performed a dramatic U-turn on the Education White Paper. He'd previously expressed deep concerns about the proposals but at the end of last week came out in support of the Prime Minister.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=210.xml Freedom to be Islamophobic- February 3, 2006 With the religious hate laws greatly muted, Nick Griffin acquitted of race hate charges and Danish & French Newspapers publishing satirical anti-Islamic cartoons. Are we using our Freedom to be Islamophobichttp://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=209.xml And now the BNP have a voice- February 3, 2006 Yesterday Leeds Crown Court acquitted BNP leader Nick Griffin and party activist Mark Collett of two and four race hate charges respectively. Both will face a retrial over other charges where the jury could not reach a verdict.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=208.xml Is God a Mass Murderer or Is the Bible Wrong- February 2, 2006 This article is the reproduction of piece I wrote 3 years ago after finding myself engaged in a debate with a pretty fundamentalist Christian. I'm reproducing it now as it's an opinion which would have been muted if the Religous Hatred Laws Labour Government proposed had not been defeated by MPs.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=206.xml Religious Hatred Laws defeated- February 2, 2006 The governments religious hatred bill was been defeated in the house of commons on Tuesday night, with MP's backing a Lords amendment to the bill, peers said only "threatening words" should be banned by the bill, not those which are only abusive or insulting.http://www.deceptikons.com/article.asp?file=207.xml |