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Digging for Christian Foundations: Tom Holland on Triggernometry

  • byAdam Wakeling
  • 3 October 2025
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Last month, historian Tom Holland was interviewed by Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster on their podcast, Triggernometry. Holland…
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Lost in the manosphere: interview with James Bloodworth

  • byDaniel James Sharp
  • 26 September 2025
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James Bloodworth is an author and journalist. In this interview, I speak to him about his latest book,…
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The unique and foolish status of the clergy

  • byJames Merryweather
  • 19 September 2025
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Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant wit of…
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Christian nationalism threatens democracy. Secularism protects it.

  • byStephen Evans
  • 18 September 2025
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With Christian nationalism apparently gaining ground in the UK, Stephen Evans argues that secularism is needed to safeguard liberal democracy.
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Freedom of expression lives where offence begins: In defence of Ibtissame Betty Lachgar

  • byMaryam Namazie
  • 3 September 2025
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'To criminalise dissent is to give ideas rights they cannot have, whilst stripping individuals of rights they must.'
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From the archive: The Freethinker and the Second World War

  • byJim Herrick
  • 2 September 2025
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and below is reproduced an…
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