THE BBC Trust today rejected calls for non-religious contributors to be allowed on Radio 4’s fatuous relic of a programme, Thought for the Day.
Complaints were made earlier this year that banning atheists, secularists or humanists from taking part in Thought for the Day breached the BBC’s guidelines on impartiality.
However, today the Guardian reports that the [...]
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THE BBC has offered £30,000 and an apology to the Muslim Council of Britain following remarks made on Question Time by former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore.
During a debate in March about Islamic protests which marred a soldiers’ homecoming parade in Luton, Moore, a panellist on the programme, accused the Muslim organisation of failing to [...]
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It always came on when he was in the shower. As it was too dangerous to leap out of a slippery tub and switch stations for a few minutes, he tried sticking his soapy fingers in his ears and singing “LALA! LALA! LA!’ at the top of his voice. But that didn’t work either.
Eventually, [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
