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The Southall Story celebrates what Salman Rushdie described in The Satanic Verses as ‘the city visible but unseen.’

Paul Fidalgo on Coyne, Dawkins, Myers, Scott, and ‘instigator’ atheism v the other kind.

Those who think Swat is a good idea have delusions about their ability to contain revolution.

Conflating religious criticism with bigotry, Islamic states and their allies are fashioning new political cudgels.

Defamation resolutions conflate individual rights and liberties with protection for ideas, religions and gods.

Editorial in Church’s in-house mag challenges belief that the bible outlaws homosexuality.

A ‘person who manages many immoral, anti-religious and anti-revolutionary sites’ should be executed.

The accommodationist position of the NAS and the NCSE compromises the science they aspire to defend.

Sheffield city council plans to cut the pay of many of the lowest paid workers in the name of gender equality.

Anomalies where low-paid women have lost pay have emerged across the UK.

Do schools have a right to peer into 13-year-old girls’ underpants in search of ibuprofen?

There is no higher authority that can legitimize the practice of torture. It is a crime under international law.

Spokesman for Swat Taleban said his movement’s aim is enforcement of Sharia in all of Pakistan.

Fused external landscapes of futuristic visions with the internal workings of his characters’ minds.

One is about scientific literacy: we need more people who are excited by what’s happening in science.

This is a totalitarian shower. It permits no space for the free application of soap.

The walkout by delegates from at least 30 countries happened within minutes of the speech starting.

‘Deplores all religious intolerance including “Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, Christian phobia and anti-Arabism”.’

What a novel idea.

The idea that death is not such a bad thing may be liberating, but is it true?