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The assassination of Charlie Kirk

  • byFariborz Pooya
‘Here lies the true danger: that American politics, already split by a widening chasm, will recoil from dialogue altogether. Bullets replace words; argument is displaced by fear. What follows is not persuasion, but polarisation.’
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Moroccan feminist Betty Lachgar wearing a t-shirt which reads 'allah is lesbian'. She was arrested in August 2025 for this act. Photo: Betty Lachgar's X Account.
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Freethought History Webinar #5: A Brief History of the Downfall of God. With S. T. Joshi (14 October 2025).

  • byDaniel James Sharp
An invitation to the fifth in our Freethought History Webinar series.
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Do We Have Free Will?

  • byAlan Rome
A review of two recent books with opposite views on free will.
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Writing for my life

  • byDina-Perla Portnaar
It’s a delicious feeling to know I’ve misled everyone…out of preservation. For twenty years, I’ve given away my…
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Religious privilege and assisted dying: an unhealthy relationship

  • byKeith Porteous Wood
This is a slightly updated version of an article that was first published and commissioned by the Espace de…
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Freedom of expression lives where offence begins: In defence of Ibtissame Betty Lachgar

  • byMaryam Namazie
'To criminalise dissent is to give ideas rights they cannot have, whilst stripping individuals of rights they must.'
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From the archive: The Freethinker and the Second World War

  • byJim Herrick
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and below is reproduced an…
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The clothes have no emperor

  • byJohn Richards
Some years ago, I debated a Muslim lecturer at Manchester University (the debate can be viewed here) on…
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