CORINNE Diserens, the head of an Italian museum who refused to buckle under Catholic pressure to remove Martin Kippenberg’s crucified frog sculpture, “Zuerst die Fuesse” (“Feet First”) has been sacked. The four-foot-high piece first leaped to prominence earlier this year when Franz Pahl, president of the regional government in the mountainous north-east of Italy, went [...]
PROBABLY the worst-turned out Darth Vader in the entire galaxy – he had a black binbag for a cape and a metal crutch for a light sabre – found himself before a magistrate today charged with assaulting two Jedis. According to the BBC, Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 