With defeat likely in next week’s AV referendum, Nick Clegg’s hopes will lie with reforming the House of Lords. But he looks set to compromise and keep the bishops in place, reports Alice Onwordi
Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports
The Islamic world needs to recover its scientific spirit, says Jim Al-Khalili
Qur’an burning is senseless, but we shouldn't be afraid to speak up for free speech, says Padraig Reidy
Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood
From the Philippines to West Africa the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator, is a geographical frontline between Christianity and Islam. Eliza Griswold has researched the resulting conflict for seven years. This is her dispatch from Nigeria
We can't do without our private places to read and think, says novelist Philip Pullman
On International Women's Day Sally Feldman asks is it a coincidence that women are being driven back into the home?
Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort