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.'
A True Reflection of Pakistan: Review of ‘Paying the Price’, by Muneeb Qadir
After my journey from blindness to rationality (detailed in my previous article for the Freethinker), I began to…
We Exist, We Resist, We Are Not Invisible: Queer, Atheist, and Humanist Refugees in South Sudan
Stories, and an urgent appeal, from the frontline of freethought.
Verses of Life: A Review of ‘Woman Life Freedom: Poems for the Iranian Revolution’, edited by Bänoo Zan and Cy Strom
Are poets really ‘the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, as Percy Bysshe Shelley put it in 1821? This…
Robert G. Ingersoll: The Great Forgotten Orator of Reason and Liberty
Robert Green Ingersoll is perhaps the greatest lost figure in freethought history. In an age before microphones and…
Badenoch, Starmer, ‘Adolescence’, and the ignored problem of religious misogyny
Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, was recently confronted by the presenters of BBC Breakfast in a…