Rare victory for rational regulation
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) ruled against a Christian billboard today that insinuated that magic ‘blessed oils’ would cure your…
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Richard Dawkins at the Lib Dem Conference
It was great to see Richard again yesterday and introduce him at the event sponsored by the BHA and organised…
Action on Noah’s Ark Farm Zoo
It really is shocking that such a place can exist today. Read my reaction below- ‘We believe Noah’s Ark Farm Zoo misleads…
Sex education is a right
Pupils want it, there’s good evidence that it reduces rates of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and it teaches…
RE: reform, revolution or what?
Difficult question on Comment is Free at the moment about Religious Education (RE) in schools in England – mainly difficult…
Little Atoms interview
Had a good evening yesterday with Padraig Ready and Neil Denny at Little Atoms when I went in to do…
London students say god is made up
Spoke last night at a debate organised at University College for a proposition that I had never debated before: ‘God…
Harold Blackham (1903-2009)
H J Blackham was an amazing man and my obituary of him appears in today’s Guardian on page 34 –…