Category: Flashback

‘There is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence.’

It is estimated that as many as 74,000 women in the UK have had FGM and that every year a further 7,000 are at risk.

She was locked in a room for a year for refusing a forced marriage, spent five years living in shelters hiding from her family.

Durban I degenerated into open expressions of intolerance and anti-Semitism that undermined the very goals the conference sought to achieve.

‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’

She rose to prominence fighting for those most easily marginalised in Africa – poor women.

Paddy Doyle has a large collection saved.

A shipowner was about to send to sea an emigrant-ship.

Enlightenment 2.0 makes for a rather toothless, muddled kind of liberation.

Across rural India, it’s easy to find people who revere sati as the ultimate demonstration of womanly honour, devotion and piety.

Ben Goldacre asks: Where’s your ethics committee now, science boy?

‘This is about women and elevating the status of women and making them equal human beings.’

79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.

Article 37 of Maryland’s constitution provides that “no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God”

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

Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence?

Tahir Aslam Gora suggests an outline for the new Islam.

The use of cultural evidence risks a dangerous balkanization of the criminal law.

This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders.

Universal means universal.