What can we learn from Derek Acorah?

Posted by Hayley on May 15, 2012 in musings, paranormal, Skepticism | 1 comment

The Sun newspaper reported today that self-proclaimed psychic, Derek Acorah, had said that missing child Madeline McCann was dead.

Project Barnum V2.0

Posted by Hayley on May 5, 2012 in Skepticism | 1 comment

Today I have relaunched the website for Project Barnum, I hope that you’ll like the new design and simpler layout of the site. The redesign happened for two reasons and I thought I’d write a brief piece here to explain more.

What are you doing, pro-choice allies?!

Posted by Hayley on May 4, 2012 in feminism, Skepticism | 17 comments

*update* This post is not a direct criticism of the Bristol demo at which the photo I’ve used was taken. This is a criticism of behaviour demonstrated in the photo shown. You can see a very similar photo here.

SPUC OFF!

Posted by Hayley on Apr 29, 2012 in atheism, feminism, Skepticism | 5 comments

Written for The Heresy Club

Earlier this week I discovered the ‘Society for the Protection of Unborn Children’ (SPUC) were holding anti-abortion protests across the UK on the 44th anniversary of the Abortion Act. One of these was to be held in the city of Bath and as I am local and pro-choice I decided to organise a pro-choice counter demo to show that not everyone agrees with SPUC’s views on abortion (not the mention their views on gay marriage, contraception and more).