Church of Scotland in homophobic employment stance?
After posting my T-Mobile blog post link on Twitter this morning I then had a look through the stories that had been running overnight and there was one that caught my eye, "Kirk votes against trainee gay clergy".Now, everyone that knows me well, knows I have a view on religion, which isn't good, however I do respect those who partake in religion of whatever faith.However, that aside, I do take racism, sexism and homophobia very seriously and I fully believe that if any organisation said they couldn't employ anyone openly religious we would never hear the end of it from religious groups.So, how can the Church of Scotland stop anyone who is openly gay work

T-Mobile personal data sale scandal update
As it is a few days since my original post about this I thought I would check the T-Mobile website again since they haven't had the decency to respond to my email asking whether my data was compromised.This update is now available on their website;"UpdateT-Mobile takes the protection of customer information seriously. When it became apparent that contract renewal information was allegedly being passed on by an employee to third parties without our knowledge, we alerted the Information Commissioner’s Office. Working

Lib Dems cleared by Electoral Commission over Michael Brown donation
Here is the full statement from the Electoral Commission;The Electoral Commission, the independent elections and party finance watchdog, today announced the outcome of its investigation into donations made by the company 5th Avenue Partners Ltd to the Liberal Democrats. Donations totalling over £2.4m were made in 2005. The investigation considered whether there had been breaches of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA). In particular, it looked at whether the company, reported as the donor, was a permissible donor. It also considered whether the company was in fact the true donor. If a party accepts impermissible donations, the Electoral C

Racism alive and well in David Cameron's Conservative Party
Yet more proof that the Conservatives may have tried to change their clothing but underneath they are still the same party of sleaze and racism.Over at Duncan Borrowman's blog, he has an extraordinary post from emails sent to him.Conservative Councillor Peter Hobbins complains of the campaigning inexperience of the candidates, and when referring to candidates Dilon Gurmal and Cameron Cutie Zerha Zaidi among others says;"Not one of them has a 'normal' English name...."For hells sake. Why are Candidates Department so keen on these foreign names?

Mariah Carey's diva demands just to turn Christmas lights on
I really couldn't believe my eyes this morning when in the Daily Telegraph they were reporting that to turn the Christmas lights on at the Westfield shopping centre in West London Mariah Carey was being a diva, darling.According to the Daily Telegraph, Mariah Carey's demands included;Driven in a pink rolls royce, down a pink carpet to a pink podium, where she was to wave a want to turn them on!80 security guards, plus an entourage of 15Confetti shaped like her favourite insect, the butterfly