President Obama criticises faith schools in Northern Ireland speech
In an address to school children in Belfast, the US President suggests that religious schools have a divisive effect on communities
Politics & Conflict
Turkey aflame
From Istanbul, Padraic Rohan reports on the continuing unrest and the challenges facing the Prime Minster and the opposition parties
Iain Duncan Smith wouldn’t last long in the Rationalists’ Parliament
There will be no fiddling with statistics at our new evidence-friendly debating chamber, promises Adam Smith .
Indonesia
The government of the world's most populous Muslim country claims that the country is free from religious strife. But is the appearance of harmony at the expense of freedom of…
Gay marriage passes Commons test
The historic same-sex marriage legislation for England and Wales is over its main Parliamentary hurdle. But humanist marriage is mysteriously jilted at the altar. Anna Vesterinen reports
Introducing the Rationalists’ Parliament
With its focus on reason and evidence, our parallel assembly goes deeper than jeering and groupthink, says Adam Smith
So why exactly does England have an established church?
As Church of England attendances continue to fall, Paul Sims considers the nation's love of anachronisms
Book review: Frantz Fanon, A Biography
More than fifty years after his death revolutionary Frantz Fanon continues to inspire and perplex in equal measure. Stephen Howe welcomes a new edition of the definitive biography
Pussy Riot: one year on
It is one year to the day since members of the punk collective Pussy Riot were detained following a 'blasphemous' guerilla anti-Putin performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.…
Talking ’bout a revolution
With the whiff of rebellion again in the air, the work of Victor Serge is being rediscovered. Not before time, says Owen Hatherley