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Monday, 12th November 2018

Atheist bloggers in Bangladesh are still under threat

After a spate of murders in 2015, freethinkers still face the dual pressures of fundamentalist threats and official persecution.
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Tuesday, 6th November 2018

"The modern faith in democracy is sometimes perverse"

Q&A with James Miller, author of "Can Democracy Work?"
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Thursday, 1st November 2018

"In Northern Ireland, many shy away from reliving the nightmare"

Q&A with Deric Henderson and Ivan Little, editors of "Reporting the Troubles: Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict"
Friday, 26th October 2018

We've digitised our archive - and it goes back to 1884!

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Friday, 19th October 2018

Can we learn from history?

Q&A with Alex Rosenberg, author of "How History Gets Things Wrong".
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Wednesday, 3rd October 2018

What humans can learn from termites

Q&A with Lisa Margonelli, author of "Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology".
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Thursday, 16th August 2018

Migrations: the autumn 2018 New Humanist

Out now - How movement shapes our world.
Thursday, 16th August 2018

The battle for legal humanist marriages in Northern Ireland continues

In the latest ruling by the Court of Appeal, Laura Lacole and Eunan O’Kane won the right for their wedding to be recognised as lawful.
Monday, 13th August 2018

The destruction of religious pluralism in India

There is anxiety that four million Bengali speakers in the Indian state of Assam could be rendered stateless overnight.

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Monday, 13th August 2018

Adjusting to a warming world

The impact of climate change is playing out in real time around us.
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Tuesday, 7th August 2018

"To understand magnetism is to understand how the universe and Earth came to be"

Q&A with Alanna Mitchell, author of "The Spinning Magnet".
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Wednesday, 1st August 2018

"The most important challenge of our day is to escape the borders of nation states"

Q&A with Lorenzo Marsili and Niccolo Milanese, authors of "Citizens of Nowhere: How Europe Can Be Saved From Itself"
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Friday, 13th July 2018

The problem with identity politics

Q&A with Asad Haider, author of "Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump"
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Wednesday, 4th July 2018

"We are in the middle of the fight": the globalisation of LGBT rights

Q&A with Frédéric Martel, author of "Global Gay: How Gay Culture is Changing the World"
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Monday, 21st May 2018

"Computers aren’t capable of using common sense"

Q&A with journalist and software developer Meredith Broussard.
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