Yesterday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed a harsh anti-homosexual bill into law. The wide-ranging bill outlines strict penalties for homosexual acts, defined as touching another person “with the intention of…
New Humanist talks to the author of "Kicking the Kremlin: Russia’s New Dissidents and the Battle to Topple Putin"
Some positive steps might have been taken, but abuses continue, writes Samira Shackle
Could abortion make you more likely to sexually abuse your children? To develop breast cancer? To become sterile? The answer to all these questions is, of course, no. But that…
Publishing giant agrees to pulp book and acknowledges that it "respects all religions worldwide"
“Outdated, interfering and ideological”. This is how the Vatican reacted to the UN Committee on the Right of the Child (CRC) report on the Holy See’s handling of Catholic Church’s…
Samira Shackle unpicks the complex issues surrounding the crime.
Last week Coronation Street – the long-running UK soap – made headlines when one of its major characters chose to commit suicide. Hayley Cropper, who was suffering from terminal pancreatic…
This article is cross-posted from Kenan Malik’s blog Pandaemonium ‘Thank you @Channel4News you just pushed us liberal Muslims further into a ditch’. So tweeted Maajid Nawaz, prospective Liberal Democratic parliamentary…
The National Secular Society has written to Channel 4 News to express concern over the programme’s censorship of the Jesus & Mo web comic, which was shown as part of…