Bad Faith Award 2011: it’s Dorries by a landslide
New Humanist readers vote overwhelmingly for the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries as 2011's leading enemy of reason
New Humanist readers vote overwhelmingly for the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries as 2011's leading enemy of reason
An issue that's packed with priests
Faith and the American way
Padraig Reidy welcomes the election of Michael D Higgins
Natalie Haynes enjoys a Nigerian travelogue
The triumph of the Islamist parties in Egypt's elections has raised fears of a religious takeover of the state. Austin Mackell reports from Cairo
Interrogation. Surveillance. Ethnic profiling. Censorship. The words come from 21st-century headlines, but they have an ancient pedigree. Cullen Murphy on how the Inquisition ignited the modern police state
Comedian and writer Andy Hamilton on being a ‘wavering agnostic’ with sympathy for the Devil
Adam Rutherford tires of zombie arguments about creationism
Fire-and-brimstone evangelists are usually associated with the US. But turn to the BBC at the weekend and you’ll see they’re enjoying a revival on these shores, says Francis Beckett