Racism bad, but is criminal prosecution of ten-year-olds the best response?… Read the rest

Government’s emphasis is preventive rather than punitive. It is rare for CPS to take up a case.… Read the rest

Pervasive pressure for theological correctness.… Read the rest

‘The development of a European Islam is, in a sense, at a caterpillar stage.’… Read the rest

Pakistan has been eaten hollow by corrosive obscurantism unleashed by Jamaat and its sympathisers.… Read the rest

‘If women were human, would we be sexual and reproductive slaves…worked without pay our whole lives?’… Read the rest

How about a taser gun, with trained shooters?… Read the rest

‘Traditions, and intellectual traditions in particular, rapidly ossify and degenerate into obscurantism.’… Read the rest

Some of the ‘faith communities’ have agendas at odds with reason and science, says chaplain.… Read the rest

Too many things that should be obvious in the light of the history of the past 100 years seem not to be so. … Read the rest

The British are not at all exceptional in suffering from ‘Dreyfus-envy.’… Read the rest

‘There is always the possibility for manoeuvre in defining identity.’… Read the rest

Case studies are recorded, data are analysed, concepts are defined, all by an invisible agent.… Read the rest

In all those years as an activist, she’d been neglecting her spirit. Ho hum.… Read the rest

What she has done, Rev. Maxfield said, runs totally ‘contrary to God’s revealed will.’… Read the rest

In some people; not in others. Dawkins did not find god.… Read the rest

Some versions of creationism are incompatible with the scientific evidence.… Read the rest

One might almost think there was no current cause for concern about Enlightenment values.… Read the rest

Popular opinion is another master, no less capricious, emotional, arbitrary, than the master it corrects.… Read the rest

Christian Legal Society forms a national group to challenge tolerance policies in federal court.… Read the rest