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Josie Appleton
Defend the Republic! Ban the burqa!
When so few European women wear the full veil, why are governments falling over themselves to ban it? It’s pseudo-libertarian grandstanding.
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| Wednesday 19 May 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Mocking Muhammad:
a shallow Enlightenment
Of course people should be free to say ‘I shit on Muhammad’. But here’s a question: why are they so keen to say it?
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| Friday 14 May 2010 |
Tim Black
The real reason the bishop likes migrants
Archbishop Rowan Williams is ‘pro-immigration’ only in the sense that he hopes the arrival of foreigners will remind Britain of its core values.
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| Tuesday 13 April 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
The Secular Inquisition
The campaign to arrest the pope is the product of an increasingly desperate secularism, which can only find meaning through ridiculing the religious.
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| Wednesday 31 March 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Thou shalt not criticise homosexuals
What kind of country arrests religious preachers in the streets and drags them to court? Britain, actually.
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| Monday 29 March 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why humanists shouldn’t join in this Catholic-bashing
The reaction to the paedophile priest scandal is as guilty of scaremongering, illiberalism and elitism as the Catholic Church has ever been.
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| Tuesday 23 March 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Will Ireland become an anti-Catholic tyranny?
Attacks on the church are less likely to foster a free, secular society than a suspicious, state-dominated one.
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| Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
Tim Black
On the Equality Bill, the pope has a point
If you believe in freedom of association, then you must accept the right of private institutions to discriminate.
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| Monday 9 November 2009 |
Frank Furedi
Elevating environmentalism over ‘less worthy’ lifestyles
The legal ruling that a belief in climate change is similar to a religious conviction seriously damages science, philosophy and democracy.
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| Wednesday 28 October 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why they love to hate Mother Teresa
The radical-atheist assaults on the late sister of Calcutta are the intellectual equivalent of mugging an old woman.
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| Tuesday 8 September 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
‘We need a supernatural being to punish eco-sinners’
The flurry of commentary in response to Lord May’s speech on climate change revealed greens’ authoritarian desire to chastise ungreen heretics.
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| Friday 14 August 2009 |
Dolan Cummings
There’s more to Calvin than dourness and asceticism
We have forgotten that John Calvin was not only a severe Christian but also a key figure in the intellectual making of the modern world.
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| Monday 20 July 2009 |
Jason Walsh
Ireland’s bizarre war on blasphemy
The new criminalisation of blasphemy is not a return to the pious past, but rather is underpinned by a very modern suspicion of offensiveness.
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| Thursday 9 April 2009 |
Brendan O’Neill
The New Atheists’ Easter message? ‘Grow up or die’
Religulous, Bill Maher’s religion-baiting documentary, confirms what modern atheists hate most about religion: its humancentricity.
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| Monday 9 February 2009 |
Terry Sanderson
We’re no witch-hunters
The president of the National Secular Society responds to Nathalie Rothschild’s article on the suspended Christian nurse.
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| Thursday 5 February 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
A secular witch-hunt in western England
In backing the suspension of a nurse who offered to pray for her patients, New Atheists have become the new inquisitors.
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| Wednesday 7 January 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
All aboard the atheist bus? No thanks
The plastering of God-doubting adverts on buses and trains captures the preachy attitude of the New Atheists.
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| Thursday 31 July 2008 |
Neil Addison
Turning the tables on the Inquisitors
A barrister says the widespread condemnation of the court victory of a Christian registrar shows up the intolerance of today’s liberal crusaders.
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| Thursday 13 March 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Blasphemy is dead!
Long live blasphemy!
England’s dusty, archaic and unpopular blasphemy laws look set to be abolished, but Ofcom and others are keeping their censorious spirit alive.
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| Wednesday 12 March 2008 |
Frank Furedi
The seven deadly personality disorders
With lust relabelled ‘sex addiction’ and gluttony turned into an ‘eating disorder’, it’s no wonder Catholics are unsure about the seven deadly sins.
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