Category: Flashback

‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’

Chris Bertram asks why the British left reacted the way it did.

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

Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.

‘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.

Faisal Joseph, a lawyer from the Canadian Islamic Congress who is representing the four students, argued that journalists can’t write just anything.

ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.

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?

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.’

You can be certain and be wrong.

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham