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The resolution cited ‘the complicity of Israeli academia’ in the occupation of Palestinian lands.

These are dark times for those of us who believe that the free exchange of ideas is a prerequisite of democracy.

Neighbours had called the police because the babies’ screams constantly emanated from the apartment.

Debate by delegates to the University and College Union is likely to spark international condemnation.

Was scheduled to speak at Imperial College, canceled because of NUJ boycott of Israeli products.

Tom Hickey, philosophy lecturer at Brighton University, is proposing the motion.

Australia’s Equal Opportunities Act bars discrimination for race, religion or sexuality, but exemptions are allowed.

‘Malaysia’s constitution guarantees freedom of worship but says all ethnic Malays are Muslim.’

‘There have to be boundaries in how far you go in respecting other’s beliefs.’ Or else.

Dawkins cites risk of buying into the fiction that there’s something virtuous about faith.

Philosophy’s great recent achievement is the theory of structured procrastination.

Just as cows inherit many features of the aurochs, today’s organized religions inherit features from folk religions.

From the viewpoint of the non-religious, what Orwell had was not a blind spot, but clarity of vision.

Why does Buruma keep condemning Hirsi Ali? Why is he so cagy about Ramadan?

Led Catholic ‘chivalric order,’ thinks ‘the faith communities do have a significant role to play.’

If standing against Sharia is ‘Islamophobic’ the accusation is an honor, says Tawfik Hamid.

A ‘jirga’ decided that three-year-old Tasleem and four-year-old Farzana be given as a penalty.

Can we have the benign element of Jesus’ teaching without all the other dreck?

Insufficiently butch teletubby could make children go all limp and wobbly.

‘Hope the Because I am a Girl campaign will create the focus and outrage needed to force change.’