Image of the week: 20 years since the Jyllands-Posten cartoons controversy
Note (added 3/11/2026): This article originally included the offending Jyllands-Posten cartoons. But owing to the possibility of copyright…
Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Secularism protects it.
With Christian nationalism apparently gaining ground in the UK, Stephen Evans argues that secularism is needed to safeguard liberal democracy.
Freethought History Webinar #6: The Career and Continuing Relevance of Charles Bradlaugh. With Bob Forder (16 December 2025).
An invitation to the sixth in our Freethought History Webinar series.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk
'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.'
Freedom of expression lives where offence begins: In defence of Ibtissame Betty Lachgar
'To criminalise dissent is to give ideas rights they cannot have, whilst stripping individuals of rights they must.'
From the archive: The Freethinker and the Second World War
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and below is reproduced an…