Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.


Belief in hell *

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79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.… Read the rest



Anthony Grayling and Keith Ward *

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God didn’t do it, he wasn’t there at the time, and besides he’s sorry.… Read the rest



The ‘Faith Community Liaison Group’ *

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



Cult Stud Suggests Put Down a Book Week *

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TV is popular culture, the working class likes it, so put down that book.… Read the rest



Marieme Hélie-Lucas challenges the ‘coward Left’ *

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Women in Algeria were slaughtered in the thousands by fundamentalist armed forces throughout the nineties, because they refused to be forcibly covered.… Read the rest



Interview with Mukhtaran Mai *

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In their hearts these people were with us, but they were scared to show this. … Read the rest



Flemming Rose on the cartoons *

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Does a religion have the right to impose its religious taboos onto the public domain?… Read the rest



Primacy of the UDHR *

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Universal means universal.… Read the rest



The dangers of too much ‘detox’ *

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The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed. … Read the rest



From Chattel to Freewomen *

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



Norm Geras on Minimum Utopia *

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



National Conference of Catholic Bishops on infants with anencephaly *

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It is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother.… Read the rest



‘Whoever changes religion – kill him’ *

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Sura 40 says that those who reject the scriptures will have iron collars and chains placed around their necks, be dragged into scalding water and burnt in the fire.… Read the rest



Bhutto Clan Leaves Trail of Corruption *

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The documents leave uncertain the degree of involvement of Benazir Bhutto but they trace the pervasive role of her husband.… Read the rest



Southern Baptist Seminary Offers ‘Homemaking’ Degree for Women *

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‘We are moving against the tide in order to establish family and gender roles as described in God’s word for the home and the family,’ seminary president said.… Read the rest



Woman’s Hour on women in Afghanistan *

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Maternal mortality and female illiteracy rates are among the highest in the world.… Read the rest



Scientist dismisses ‘detox’ diets *

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Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.… Read the rest



Richard Wolin on Derrida *

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‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’… Read the rest



Index to Creationist Claims *

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Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.… Read the rest



The Things We Forgot to Remember *

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OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t… Read the rest