Shelley’s ‘The Necessity of Atheism’ 200 years on
The 200th anniversary of Shelley’s ‘The Necessity of Atheism’, perhaps the first atheist pamphlet in England and the cause of…
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What’s offensive, for god’s sake?
The silly rejection of the BHA’s Census Campaign adverts prompted a blog from me on the Index on Censorship’s ‘Free…
If you’re not religious, tell the census so
The Guardian’s CIF Belief question this week is all about the religion question in the census. My blog, up there…
Why we should phase out state-funded religious schools
Had a blog today over at The Independent site for the Battle of Ideas on faith schools. You can read…
Our Humanist Heritage
This week is Humanist Week and the theme is humanist heritage. A new resource has been launched to catalogue Britain’s…
Opening the floodgates for state-funded religious schools
It is really sad to see the government exacerbated the mistake of expanded state-funded religious schools made by the last…
Skeptic Trumps
Crispian Jago’s series of ‘Skeptic Trumps’ grows and grows. It has grown so large that there is even one of…
Debating at the Oxford Union
Took part in a debate at the Oxford Union last night with Peter Atkins and Simon Blackburn against speakers including the…