Sex survey: third of Britons ‘would sleep with a stranger for £1million’ Almost a third of Britons would have sex with anyone who paid them £1million, a survey has found. telegraph.co.uk According to the poll the average Briton has sex three to four times a week and has slept with up to five different people Photo: PHOTOLIBRARY Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal Photo: REX Researchers, however, found that almost half said they would never accept such a proposal to have sex with a stranger. The Durex British Sex survey found that almost 30 per cent of people … Continue reading Britons would have sex with anyone who paid them £1million!

Professionals involved in dispensing medicine shouldn’t let their beliefs get in the way of patient care Balaji Ravichandran guardian.co.uk The new code of conduct for pharmacists across the country will continue to allow for exemptions on religious grounds, the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) said yesterday. The body, which takes over the regulatory duties from Royal Pharmaceutical Society later this year, has said that pharmacists with strong religious and moral principles can refuse to sell or prescribe products if they feel that doing so would go against their beliefs. This so-called “conscience clause” is nothing new, nor is it restricted only … Continue reading Drug dealers shouldn’t invoke belief

Phil Woolas’s defence of the inhumane Yarl’s Wood removal centre reflects Labour’s shift to the right on asylum Simon Parker guardian.co.uk A discredited policy … Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre. Photograph: Sean Dempsey/PA Phil Woolas’s response to a further damning indictment of Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre by the chief inspector of prisons shows that the government has to resort to scare tactics and lies to defend a policy that has been condemned by several royal colleges of medicine, the Faculty of Public Health, the former children’s commissioner for England, many leading Christian and Jewish faith leaders, all the major … Continue reading Can Labour ‘out-nasty’ the Tories on asylum?

It is part of society’s obligation to the victims to make a serious effort to hold Nazi criminals such as Heinrich Boere to account Efraim Zuroff guardian.co.uk Nazi war criminal Heinrich Boere at court in Aachen, western Germany. Photograph: Henning Kaiser/AFP/Getty Images There no doubt are many people who wonder whether the conviction this past week in Germany of 88-year-old Heinrich Boere for Nazi crimes committed during the second world war serves any useful purpose. They can point to the fact that more than 60 years have passed since he committed his crimes and that he was not a mass … Continue reading No time limit for Nazi convictions

Viewing the Islam Channel critically We have a duty to hold to account broadcasters such as the Islam Channel that spread reactionary, intolerant messages Maajid Nawaz guardian.co.uk For the last seven years, since its launch in 2004, the London-based Islam Channel has been a hugely influential in the British Muslim community, where it has played a pivotal role in the development of a British Islam. Every night, thousands of British Muslims, many of them young, tune into the channel to watch programmes dealing with news, current affairs and religion from a distinctly Islamic angle. In addition, every few years, the … Continue reading Are we viewing the Islam Channel critically?

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of a “new day” in relations with Pakistan, praising security cooperation that has included the arrest of key Afghan Taliban leader. — Photo by AFP dawn.com WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s foreign minister declared himself a “happy” man after high-level talks in Washington this week aimed at reversing tempestuous ties between the two allies. Despite his optimism, tensions persist from security cooperation to how aid is spent, but winning over a strongly skeptical Pakistani public may be the toughest task. Opinion polls show less than one in five Pakistanis view the United States favourably despite a … Continue reading In Pakistan, money alone can’t buy US love

By Kamran Shafi dawn.com It is wrong to think that all it will take for the Taliban to stop their attacks on Pakistan is the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. –Photo by Reuters And by golly are they in a raging fire, no matter what anyone says. So let us say it straight. Rather than cursing the Americans for being in Afghanistan and making us fight the war against terror, we should be grateful that they forced the Pakistani establishment, at that time under the command of the Commando, to turn on its own creation. To prove the point … Continue reading The chestnuts are our own

Still, the arrests in Pakistan have sown nervousness among Taliban leaders. The arrests appear to represent a significant shift in tactics by Pakistani security officials, who have allowed Taliban leaders to operate freely in their country for years. The Pakistani military and intelligence services helped create the Taliban in the mid-1990s, and elements of their security services have maintained a shadowy relationship with the group ever since. – Photo on File dawn.com KABUL:  The Taliban’s supreme leader has replaced his top deputy with a young but hardened fighter, an indication of the Taliban’s determination to push ahead with its insurgency, … Continue reading New leader indicates Taliban’s determination

By Rafia Zakaria dawn.com Special envoy Richard Holbrooke’s recalibration of how aid to Pakistan is utilised is commendable. –Photo by APP Last year, after the United States Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar Bill, and after a series of visits to the region, special envoy Richard Holbrooke, who personally signs every contract concerning projects in Pakistan, began doing something markedly different. In a massive overhaul of the aid regime that grants money to development projects, Holbrooke began rejecting all projects that used American contractors with the directive that aid projects in Pakistan should use Pakistani contractors and organisations. This move is likely … Continue reading Aid without USAID

The phoenix flops Posted by Nadeem F. Paracha For months the Zaid Hamid brigade had been congesting cyber space and the two TV channels that the haughty ideological quack is a regular fixture on, with promises of holding a ‘massive gathering of youth’ at the Minar-e-Pakistan on this year’s Pakistan Day (23rd March). However, the no-show by Zaid and his fans at the Minar-e-Pakistan suggests the long honeymoon Mr. Hamid had been enjoying may be as good as over. He simply failed to reach the Minar-e-Pakistan, not because he had a massive body of passionate young men with him chanting … Continue reading The phoenix flops?