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Girls are particularly losing out: 1 in 5 girls in primary, 1 in 20 in secondary school.

Seven million Afghan children are out of school while five million children attend school.

‘What is prohibited is one group or person imposing their will on others.’ Tell that to al Qaradawi.

Reductionist scientific model keeps broader, more holistic science out. Tragic.

‘Creationism and ID have long been part of our heritage and have failed to infect it.’ Oh?

‘There’s little enough time with the school curriculum to deal with real science,’ says Phil Willis.

Praying-induced oromandibular dystonia is nothing to fool around with.

Order blogger to remove post on nutritionists.

‘Blogging would be a less free medium than it is, and than I hope it will continue to be, if I had acceded to Mr Clark’s demands.’

The government is finally starting to notice that the Muslim Council of Britain is in denial.

Geertz’s models were drawn from literary theory and philosophy; he was read by scholars in the humanities.

It was democracy that prevented the reform of Pakistan’s rape laws, not the dictator.

‘For all we know, she may have’ – or not.

In historical investigations one must be guided by the hard evidence, not by ‘for all we know’.

‘Bible refuses to give God a definite shape’ – yes but it still definitely tells us what to do.

Task of Christian leaders is to defend Europe’s Christian heritage against zealous secularism.

Can Muslims in free societies demand freedom and tolerance for Islam and deny others the same?

Increasing numbers of political activists are being executed by Iran on trumped-up charges.

Cut out all forms of adornment – Sikh, Muslim, Christian, the lot – or allow people to wear what they like.

Nerdy appraisal of research is fun once you’re catching people out and making them look silly.