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How taxpayers subsidise evangelism
Religious charities in England and Wales receive massive tax cuts. Let's stop helping them evangelise
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Religious charities in England and Wales receive massive tax cuts. Let's stop helping them evangelise
The alt-history served up by popular video games has proven fertile ground for far-right propaganda
Read more about How neo-Nazis are radicalising gamers
Christians are now in the minority. Is the Church of England going to confront its own decline?
Read more about The Church in crisis
From medieval times to our own, women have always defied the rules of sex and relationships
Read more about A history of women's desire
Paul Corner's book tackles popular misconceptions about the Italian dictator – and the nostalgia for authoritarianism to which they give rise
Read more about Book review: Mussolini in Myth and Memory
As a historian, the experience made me question my ideas about memory and identity
Read more about What supporting my father through Alzheimer's taught me
There have long been hopes that nuclear fusion could provide a fountain of green energy – but recent advances can't obscure the scale of the challenge
Read more about Could nuclear fusion save the planet?
How Mikhail Gorbachev pitched up on Bono's Dublin doorstep clutching an enormous teddy bear, and other stories
Read more about Book review: Surrender by Bono
"The west has failed with Russia. We cannot fail with China"
Read more about Martin Wolf on the crisis of democratic capitalism
The belief that racism is ineradicable has inevitably shaped the character of antiracism today
Read more about The paralysing pessimism of Critical Race Theory
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