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It's emerged today that a Muslim police officer was excused from guarding London's Israeli embassy after he objected on moral grounds. The officer, PC Alexander Omar Basha, whose wife is Lebanese, said while the Israelis were bombing Lebanon he couldn't protect their embassy. Was he right to take a stand? Or, as a police officer who's sworn an oath, should he have carried out his duties regardless of his personal beliefs? Would you go further and say all politics and religion be kept out of the workplace? If you were in his position what would you have done?

You know how I love celebrity stories, well it's not just me today. I received an email from our editor Mark wondering if we should talk about celebrities and adoption. And, you guessed it, I do. Madonna, or madge to her friends, has become the latest in a long list of celebrities who've adopted orphans from impoverished countries. We'd love to know what you make of the likes of Madonna, Meg Ryan, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, all of whom have adopted. Do celebrity adoptions like this make YOU want to go out and adopt, or do you think it's just a fad of the rich that's providing false hope to millions of orphaned children?

With the mid term elections looming will the republican party be able to recover from the damage caused by Mark Foley who quit after it was discovered he was sending salacious e-mails and instant messages to school boys? It's now emerging that some of Foley's colleagues knew about what he was doing. Your thoughts please.

The designer daughter of legendry rocker Sir Paul McCartney has been made into a character in the latest Mr Men books. Little Miss Stella will feature in her very own story when she joins up with Little Miss Nobody, who has trouble meeting people. If you could be one of the Mr Men who who would you be and why?

A Japanese university has banned dyed hair in a drive for 'decency'. Is this a suppression of student's rights? Or, a much needed condition to bring scruffy multicoloured students in to line?

2 women have pleaded guilty to conspiracy, arson and bomb charges relating to a firebombing in 2001 at the University of Washington horticulture centre - they were members of the Earth Liberation Front, who were opposed to the University developing fast growing hybrid Poplar trees.
How can university campus extremism be controlled?

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