The National Secular Society this week applied to the High Court to have council prayers declared unlawful. If the society wins the case it would create a precedent that would be binding on other councils. After weeks of exhausting preparation, the papers were lodged at the High Court for a “Judicial Review between the Queen [...]
A WEBSITE A designed to “allow as many people in the UK as possible to put forward their ideas on what laws and regulations we should do away with” was launched at the beginning of July. Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, along with the rest of the Coalition Government, are [...]
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AUSTRALIA’S new Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she has no intention of pretending to believe in God in order to win over religious voters. While former PM Kevin Rudd was a regular at Canberra church services – and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is known as a devout Catholic – Ms Gillard says that, while she [...]
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BEATING off stiff competition, Dr Antony Lempert, co-ordinator of the Secular Medical Forum, was voted ‘Academic of the Year’ in the 2010 Erotic Awards. According to this report, the GP who practises in Wales, was presented with his prize, a winged golden dick, at the Erotic Awards ceremony in Central London recently. Later he spoke [...]
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BENEATH a report in The Times today that Ratzinger has again blasted gay marriage and abortion – saying they are “among the most insidious and dangerous challenges” to society – there is this delicious response from a reader, Susie Downer: We delude ourselves if we think the silly old bloke in the frock and red [...]
WHATEVER one might think of our new Lib-Con Government, there’s very good cause to lament the absence in the new coalition of Dr Evan Harris, who lost his Oxford West & Abingdon seat by fewer than 200 votes. Harris had been the target of campaigns by at least two priests, one of whom was behind [...]
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
