If there’s one piece of law that, more than any other, is guaranteed to generate media coverage that makes you want to headdesk then it has to be section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, which reads as follows: 5 Harassment, alarm or distress. (1)A person is […]

As you might well imagine, the Catholic Herald is anything but regular reading at the Ministry. Nevertheless, a couple of recent articles published in the Herald have caught my eye because they disclose one or two interesting tidbits of information in relation to issues I’ve covered in a […]

A couple of months back I wrote about what appears to to me, and to quite a lot of other people, to be a utterly ridiculous and abusive libel action against a blogger by the name of Vaughan Jones. To save time, I won’t run through the particulars […]

Several papers have been quick off the mark to run claims that abortion increases the risk of mental health problems based on a new study by Priscilla Coleman, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Bowling Green State University, which has been published this week by the […]

Simon Caldwell’s article in yesterday’s Telegraph, which tries to suggest that BPAS and Marie Stopes International may have made inflated claims about the number of women who book consultations with them but then decide against having an abortion is, to say the least, another veritable cornucopia of tendentious […]