Blasphemy Month at the Freethinker
June is Blasphemy Month at the Freethinker. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines blasphemy as ‘profane talk of…
The price of criticising Islam in northern Nigeria: imprisonment or death
The humanist Mubarak Bala has been sentenced to 24 years' imprisonment in Kano, Nigeria, for blasphemous Facebook posts. In the same region, a Christian college student has been murdered for supposed blasphemy.
Image of the week: the Freethinker on the British Humanist Association, 1967
The National Secular Society and the British Humanist Association (now Humanists UK), and associated organisations and individuals, have…
Image of the week: ‘Possessed by Not-Quite-Holy-Spirit’
May is Humanism Month at the Freethinker. We will be exploring different conceptions of humanism, past and present.…
Image of the week: A review of the first Freethinker
There have always been links between the freethought movements in Britain and North America. The above image is…
Image of the week: Charles Bradlaugh’s study after his death, by Walter Sickert
In the late 1880s, Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was an emerging artist who made money from portrait painting.…