BHA Conference 2011
Just back from the BHA Conference in Manchester, the first in a decade. We had some great speakers including Peter…
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Church-run state schools have reached the end of their term
The growth in faith schools in the last decade or so presents a grim prospect for future social injustice. Let’s stop…
Classical Inspiration
Natalie Haynes’ excellent Voltaire Lecture for the BHA yesterday on how the ancient world can tell teach us about ourselves…
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…
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…