Merlin Holland joins the first Gay Pride march in the Russian capital
I became editor of New Humanist a year ago, just as religious fundamentalism was making its remorseless march to the centre of the global agenda.
Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives
Andrew Copson finds danger in Blair's education reforms
Stephen Howe wallows in left melancholia
Brian Whitaker traces the evolution of Middle-Eastern homophobia
Moving back from Yale to the London School of Economics, Professor Paul Gilroy finds his home town changed but the people just as mixed up
What is the right balance between authority and autonomy, between prohibition and freedom? This has become the overarching question during Tony Blair's third term.
It's not just China that is preventing the emergence of a modern Tibet. Western romantic delusions are just as stifling, argues novelist Jamyang Norbu
Michael Binyon on the bloodiest and most costly war ever fought.