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This is a guest post by Alex Stein of falsedichotomies.com
A common trope of inter-generational discourse is for the older generation to dismiss the views of younger interlocutors as naïve or idealistic. This is a conversation stopper: to properly assess the claim we would need to fast forward twenty years to see if the accused still [...]

Blair is asked about his mistakes. Iraq was not one of them.
Needless to say, when you actually ask what these mistakes might be, he trots out an old line about how he wished he had rolled out his reforms – in education and health – much faster.
The Iraq War, which lots of us regard as [...]

Dawkins has lent his support, both moral and financial, to an atheist camp for children (By the way, The Times’s use of the word groom in the headline is in poor taste, given its common modern usage in news articles):
Budding atheists will be given lessons to arm themselves in the ways of rational scepticism. There [...]

Here’s a tale from The Times:
A Jewish couple are suing neighbours over motion sensors that turn on the lights in their communal stairwell, which they claim make it impossible for them to leave their flat during the sabbath.
Like many Orthodox Jews, Dena and Gordon Coleman will not use electricity between sundown on Friday and [...]

Another celebration of Hezbollah in London is scheduled for 9 July:
PALESTINE & US HEGEMONY
IUPFP-UK organises:
PALESTINE & US HEGEMONY
Exploring the achievements of resistance and discussing shifts in US foreign policy
6pm, Thursday July 9th
Friend Meeting House, Euston
Speakers:
HIZBULLAH REPRESENTATIVE (video link from Lebanon)
HAIFA ZANGANA (on Iraq)
DR AZZAM TAMIMI (on Palestine)
NADINE ROSA-ROSSO (from recogniseresistance.net, on the role [...]

Singing for the people of Iran, including a verse in Farsi:

Leading Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami has, according to Reuters, “called for the execution of ‘rioters’ in the latest sign of the authorities’ determination to stamp out opposition to the June 12 presidential election”.
“I want the judiciary to … punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson,” Ahmad Khatami told [...]

Please listen to what Dr Arash Hejazi has to say. He cannot return to Iran for having said it.
For those who believe that supporting, apologising for or just carefully refraining from criticising the regime in Iran is somehow “good for Muslims”, the segment starting at 14:00 is particularly recommended.

Here’s the imperialist vanguard:

UPDATE: Don’t [...]

As I’ve argued before, my preference is for parents to teach children their familar religious faith at home. I don’t think that state schools should perform this role at all.
However, if sectarian religious schools are to receive funding, it is important that they do not discriminate unlawfully.
So I’m pleased by this judgement.
I expect [...]

For those who think we don’t present enough conservative views at this blog (I suppose others think we present too many), here without comment or edit are the Young Cons: