The survey shows that Muslims do not form a single homogenous community.… Read the rest

Documents seen by the BBC suggest the archbishop ignored the advice of doctors and therapists who warned that Hill was likely to re-offend.… Read the rest

Appendix F – a must read.… Read the rest

A world cured of its worst remediable deprivations and horrors is worth aiming for.… Read the rest

A ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas ‘across Whitehall’. … Read the rest

Michael Foot, A C Grayling, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion, Ian Mayes at ceremony to do that.… Read the rest

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.… Read the rest

Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.… Read the rest

On NPR’s Science Friday in 1996, the rising popularity of pseudoscience and the importance of critical thinking.… Read the rest

We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest

Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”… Read the rest

Debate human nature.… Read the rest

Books by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.… Read the rest

Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress; fifteen died.… Read the rest

She was regularly beaten, left to sleep in her own urine, had her teeth knocked out, was hospitalised after a beating when she tried to break out of the orphanage.… Read the rest

Human rights group also wants web log writers to highlight the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals.… Read the rest

Very nasty stuff… Read the rest

She houses, feeds, clothes and pays for the schooling of orphans in Uganda.… Read the rest

Dr Mohini Giri works to rescue Indian widows from living death.… Read the rest