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  • Iain Duncan Smith wouldn’t last long in the Rationalists’ Parliament

    There will be no fiddling with statistics at our new evidence-friendly debating chamber, promises Adam Smith .

  • Indonesia

    The government of the world's most populous Muslim country claims that the country is free from religious strife. But is the appearance of harmony at the expense of freedom of belief? Anna Vesterinen reports.

  • Gay marriage passes Commons test

    The historic same-sex marriage legislation for England and Wales is over its main Parliamentary hurdle. But humanist marriage is mysteriously jilted at the altar. Anna Vesterinen reports

  • Introducing the Rationalists’ Parliament

    With its focus on reason and evidence, our parallel assembly goes deeper than jeering and groupthink, says Adam Smith

  • So why exactly does England have an established church?

    As Church of England attendances continue to fall, Paul Sims considers the nation's love of anachronisms

  • Book review: Frantz Fanon, A Biography

    Frantz Fanon, the Martinican revolutionary of the 1950s, has been cited as an inspiration for the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement. But is there anything more to his work than a sophisticated justification of violence? Stephen Howe turns to a new edition of David Macey's definitive biography to find out

  • Pussy Riot: one year on

    A year to the day after members of the punk collective Pussy Riot were detained following a 'blasphemous' guerilla anti-Putin performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the lead singer of Canadian band Irreverend James and the Critical Mass Choir issues a call for solidarity and presents his band's version of the offending song, Punk Prayer

  • Talking 'bout a revolution

    With the whiff of rebellion again in the air, the work of Victor Serge is being rediscovered. Not before time, says Owen Hatherley

  • You can't talk people out of religion

    Jacques Berlinerblau responds to Kenan Malik’s review of his book.

  • Book Review: How to Be Secular by Jacques Berlinerblau

    Why is secularism a toxic word in the US, and can it be rehabilitated? Kenan Malik on a new book by American academic Jacques Berlinerblau, which promises to do just that