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• Taking liberties

  True freedom requires not wealth but faith, says social theorist Stein Ringen

• Watching David Attenborough: Laurie Taylor talks to the renowned naturalist

  Laurie Taylor turns the microscope on to the man who’s brought us life on earth, in the freezer, under the oceans and in the undergrowth

• Offend who you like, just don't mention religion

  On the stand-up circuit disabled people are fair game. Yet mocking God can get you banned, says Christina Martin

• Blasphemy in the Christian World by David Nash

  Toby Saul on how blasphemy changed the way we think

• Global warning

  With cartoon controversies reverberating across the world Tzvetan Todorov, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, considers the after-effects of the Danish images

• Getting better all the time

  Genetic modification of humanity isn't just possible, argues John Harris. It's a moral duty.

• Forced labour

  200 years since it was abolished, slavery is not only still happening, reports Rahila Gupta, it’s actually increasing all over the world

• Secrets and lies

  Survivors of child abuse at religious schools are finally making their case, reports Francis Beckett

• Non-Violence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

  AC Grayling explores the history of non-violence

• Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi with Leonardo de Benedetti

  Stan Cohen on Primo Levi's report from the death camps