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Weakening the rights of children

Gerald Mercer | 28 October 2005

Sure, adults deserve to have their fundamental human rights protected. But why don't we set the same standard for their children?



Another side to African debt relief

Eugene Agboifo Ohu | 28 October 2005 | comment 1

Despite the well-publicised generosity of the G8 countries in forgiving US$18 billion of their country's debt, ordinary Nigerians are not rejoicing.



The noble art of statesmanship

Carolyn Moynihan | 28 October 2005

If one is looking for a model statesman, it is difficult to go past Thomas More, the English Lord Chancellor who lost his head for resisting Henry VIII.



Why do science?

Carolyn Moynihan | 22 October 2005

The West is losing its scientific lead in the world and governments are looking for ways to attract more young people to the laboratory. But can they succeed against the attractions of a consumer society?



Jurassic theories

Michael Cook | 21 October 2005

An expert on dinosaurs claims to have delivered a killer blow to the credentials of religion by examining international health statistics. It's not very convincing.



A challenge for Filipino families

Leo R. Maliksi | 21 October 2005

Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says a leading economist in an exclusive MercatorNet interview. Big families are the ultimate resource.



Your gender is not an accident

Carolyn Moynihan | 15 October 2005 | comment 37

The idea of medical intervention to change one's sex has gained credibility in recent years. Dr Rick Fitzgibbons thinks that it has been a great mistake.



Dont get stuck on stupid, media

Michael Cook | 15 October 2005

Why did a credulous American media believe the grim fairy tales of murder, rape and pillage in New Orleans even though there was precious little evidence for them?



Enlarging the family

Carolyn Moynihan | 30 September 2005

Is three the new two? Moves in France and elsewhere to stave off population decline are drawing attention to the importance of bigger families.



Cashing in on the rage for New Age

Michael Cook | 29 September 2005

The ideas of New Age gurus are worse than twaddle about crystals and dolphins: they’re appallingly self-centred. Take Paulo Coelho's latest novel, for instance.



This health and safety stuff is pure bull

William Keenan | 28 September 2005

Fussy Eurocrats and their regulations wouldn't get within a bull's roar of the fiesta in a small corner of Spain in early September.



Running out of self-esteem

Carolyn Moynihan | 23 September 2005

According to a 1960s brainwave, self-esteem will save the world from crime, drug abuse, underachievement and pollution. But the evidence is less and less convincing.



Maid in Taiwan

Leo R. Maliksi | 23 September 2005

Filipino women working overseas remit dollars back home and export Christianity to the country where they are employed.



Forgetting the Holocaust

Michael Cook | 23 September 2005

The death this month of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal reminds us that we are still in danger of forgetting about the lessons of the Holocaust.



The incredible reappearing family dinner

Carolyn Moynihan | 16 September 2005

Don't sell the dinner table — family meals are making a comeback. There is even a book about their surprising power.



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