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• Damon Wayans criticised after calling Bill Cosby accusers 'unrapeable'

  05-09-2015 23:06
  
  Comedian says Cosby wouldn’t be attracted to ‘bitches’ alleging rape and suggests Cosby was in relationships with the women before spurning themComedian and film star Damon Wayans was criticised on Saturday after he defended Bill Cosby against rape allegations and called some of those who have made accusations against the Cosby Show star “bitches” who were “unrapeable”.Asked about the continued accusations against Cosby in an interview with radio program
  
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• Welby urges MPs: reject right-to-die bill that ‘crosses the Rubicon’

  05-09-2015 22:14
  
  Heads of all main UK faith groups write joint letter calling for assisted dying law to be stoppedBritain will cross a “legal and ethical Rubicon” if parliament votes to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives, said the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as leaders of all the UK’s major faith groups call on MPs to reject plans to allow assisted suicide.In an extraordinary show of unity on Sunday, the heads of Britain’s Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh comm
  
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• Why I believe assisting people to die would dehumanise our society for ever | Justin Welby

  05-09-2015 22:00
  
  The archbishop of Canterbury and other faith leaders are urging MPs to oppose a change in the law as they fear it would mean crossing an ethical RubiconFaith leaders unite against assisted dying bill. The big issueWith other faith leaders, I have joined in writing to members of parliament, urging them to oppose Rob Marris’s assisted dying bill.We have written, not in an attempt to push “the religious” viewpoint on others but because we are concerned that a change in the current
  
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• The Observer view on assisted dying | Observer editorial

  05-09-2015 22:00
  
  It seems change in the law will inevitably come. But not before all sides have had their sayFew issues unleashed by modernity are more complex than that of assisted dying. We live in an age where we have the drugs to prolong life and to end it almost instantly. As a result, our pharmacology is outpacing our law.While both sides of the debate would agree that a protracted, painful death is an end no one wishes for, an ageing population means this is precisely the fate that awaits an increasing nu
  
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• Assisted dying: leaders of faith communities speak out against new bill | the big issue

  05-09-2015 22:00
  
  Fears that if passed, the bill will have a detrimental effectWhy I don’t agree with assisted dying. By Justin WelbyAs leaders of faith communities, we wish to express concern at the provisions of the assisted dying (No 2) bill, currently in the House of Commons. In doing so, we are conscious that the bill touches deeply on some of the most difficult and testing circumstances that people may face.While much could be said on the legal and ethical implications of the bill, our focus in writin
  
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• Sophie Heawood: why I won’t condemn Chrissie Hynde

  05-09-2015 07:00
  
  ‘You can’t blame Chrissie Hynde for blaming herself for the assault on her as a young woman, or the whole cycle of non-empathy continues’The thing about having your sense of self demolished by a group of depraved men is that you don’t always think the right things about it afterwards. So when the rockstar Chrissie Hynde spoke last week about something that had happened to her when she was 21 and high on drugs, and said that it was “all my doing and I take full respo
  
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