Category: Flashback

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.’

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.

‘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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Universal means universal.

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