Editorial: Big books
Bibles, doubt and morality without God
Human Rights & Ethics
Woman of substance
Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution
Witch-hunt saboteurs
Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports
No ifs, no buts
Qur’an burning is senseless, but we shouldn't be afraid to speak up for free speech, says Padraig Reidy
Test-tube truths
Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope
Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
Whitewash
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
Faultline
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…
Is it racist to criticise religion?
As the Conservative chair Sayeeda Warsi suggests Islamophobia has become acceptable, Paul Sims assesses the boundaries of free speech