Dick of the Year – Theresa May, Nadine Dorries and Louise Mensch
This is a nomination for Bright Green's Dick of the Year 2011 award by Naomi Beecroft. To submit your own nomination email 200 words (or thereabouts) to editors (at) brightgreenscotland…
Abortion Rights: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
There's a certain irony to promoting “non-directive counselling” as a means of reducing the abortion rate. But I'm starting to think that the coalition government doesn't really understand irony. The…
Abortion Rights and Democracy: The Nadine Dorries Update
When I wrote a piece for Bright Green a few weeks ago on the undemocratic nature of challenges to abortion rights, I didn't expect to be writing a follow-up quite…
Law as the codification of attitude
By Mairi Campbell Jack So, I was able to have a righteously leftist angry breakfast on Saturday courtesy of reading this article in the Guardian. The jist of it is…
Choosing to fight
On 31st May 2009 Dr George Tiller was shot dead by an anti abortion activist while serving as an usher in his local church in Wichita, Kansas. This was the…
Abortion Rights and Democracy
Nadine Dorries doesn't like facts; she admits that her own blog is “70% fiction”, and has a reputation for citing urban legends in support of her own views. So here's…