Without illusions
Doug Ireland welcomes a passionate and practical approach to secularism
Rationalism, Atheism & Humanism
Unmasked
Paul Sims finds out what’s behind the anarchic anti-cult group Anonymous
They should have seen it coming
For years James Randi’s foundation has had a million dollars for anyone able to prove they have paranormal powers. But, he explains, in 2010 that money will be put to…
Backlash
A simple suggestion that MPs leave their religious views outside Parliament turned me into a hate figure for Labour Party Catholics, says Mary Honeyball
On neutral ground
We have already invented a way for the devout and the godless to get along in public, says Paul Kelly. We just have to believe in it
Revolutionising Tom Paine
Recording his new radio play, Trevor Griffiths discovered the true revolutionary spirit of Tom Paine
The Roads to Modernity: the British, French and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Stephen Howe asks why Gordon Brown is endorsing Neocon history
Heights of madness
As Sex and the City totters on to the big screen, Sally Feldman celebrates the agony and the ecstasy of the stiletto
Death on air
Sanal Edamuruku on the night a guru tried to kill him live on Indian TV
A chorus of booze
In today's health-scare climate, it takes Kingsley Amis to remind us of the joys of drunkenness, says Toby Saul