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HRW had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters.

‘We need to be looking to political philosophy. I’m as hazy on the subject as the next person…’

It hasn’t offended anyone yet, but it might, so let’s not publish it after all.

They escape the horror of women priests but the Vatican is a strict boss.

Hanim Goren shouted at her husband across the courtroom: ‘Look at my face. What did you do to Tulay?’

‘The Islamic syariah law has become void because Article 4 places the country’s law above other laws.’

‘There is a vast amount of pro-Stalinist literature on the bookstalls: fiction, journalism and pseudo-history.’

New evidence indicates that Darwinius masillae is not a transitional form in human evolution.

The Exclusive Brethren Church is accused of hiding a ‘plague’ of sexual abuse.

‘The quest for meaning continues. So God isn’t going anywhere.’ There’s logic for you!

‘The unforgivable part is that they told me and my sisters that my mother had given us up, that she didn’t want us.’

Industry bodies don’t seem to do much of a job checking credentials.

The Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention were knocked offline.

‘I am not asking for forgiveness and it wasn’t a mistake. It was a choice.’ ‘Well, in that case, you will be judged.’

Bishops often moved the abuser priests into poorer, working-class areas, where people were more trusting.

The issue of child abuse cannot be ignored or left simply to individuals taking action through the courts.

There was near unanimity at CFI in support of Blasphemy Day. Paul Kurtz and a few others dissented.

Received a Templeton fellowship. Reported sympathetically on Creation Museum, Dominonist film festival.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown seems to think angry criticism is somehow opposed to free speech.

The horrid ‘new atheists’ versus the kinder gentler ‘sweet atheists.’