So it seems that the Russian Orthodox Church has been heavily complicit in the recent wave of aggression from the Russian state. Alongside the better-publicised law against "homosexual propaganda", a...
I would never normally consider posting a question about ghosts in this section but I think I'll get the best answer here. I do not believe in any supernatural phenomena, however I was speaking to...
It's plurting big style.
Fave BIL has been told his cancer isn't too bad, he's away for treatment next week.
Older alba has a job interview on Monday. (to do with his choice of career thankfully)...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10261550/Muslim-woman-must-remove-burka-in-court-judge-insists.html a sound legal principle? Or is the learned judge just exposing his prejudices?...
Would AB readers kindly provide a caption for this photo please.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/22/article-2400451-1B691B68000005DC-479_634x854.jpg...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10260698/David-Cameron-goes-topless-on-Polzeath-beach-in-Cornwall.html There was much controversy over the topless photos of the Duchess of...
Seen this morning's piccies of our hard working PM on the beach? Looks like he could do with shedding a few pounds - he's no Vladimir Putin. Try some austerity, porkie!
Sounds like it's going to be awful - but that would be in keeping with Man of Steel, in which the squeal to he'll be playing Batman. Can we really go back to that campy, crap kind of Batman after the...
Bradley Manning has announced that he wishes to be called Chelsea and become a woman. Don't you find it ironic that a man who was so free with US state secrets was keeping one himself? And how did it...
News contributors - I want to propose something... For the next week, can we try altering our responses so that we [i]only[i] address the question raised, ignoring the temptation to score points,...
In discussions on R&S both here and elsewhere one often hears questions like Why are you bothered? Why don't you just let people believe what they want? What harm does religion do? This is one example...
I received a mailing today from the above society - completely out of the blue and of no interest to me whatsoever. It amazes me where they get these lists of addresses from I will send it back and...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2399842/Asylum-seeker-secured-straight-As-A-level-winning-place-Oxford--family-refused-permission-stay-Britain.html Whilst doing exceptionally well with his...