Universities can still have some funding, provided they do research on David Cameron’s hot new idea.… Read the rest

It is estimated that 70-80% of marriages are forced. The literacy rate of Afghan girls of 15 or more is just 12%. Violence and abuse are widespread.… Read the rest

Conservatives and Liberals will hand over much of what’s left of the public sector to corporations seeking to build private monopolies at public expense.… Read the rest

Security forces moved to subdue the woman. Even a member of the hotel’s kitchen staff drew a knife. “Traitor!” he shouted at her in contempt.… Read the rest

They tell people to take holy water instead; hundreds die.… Read the rest

“This is just another attempt to think through how to live a full Christian life.”… Read the rest

“Nuns and priests who simply decided that the child would be better off with families they trusted than with the ones to which they had been born.”… Read the rest

The young, educated secular activists who initially propelled the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force.… Read the rest

‘It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often as not in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.’… Read the rest

AI calls on the Egyptian authorities to investigate allegations of torture, including forced ‘virginity tests’, inflicted by the army on women protesters.… Read the rest

“The atheistic understanding of morality comes directly or indirectly from what is commonly referred to as the Judeo-Christian ethic.”… Read the rest

New resolution “condemns any advocacy of religious hatred that amounts to incitement to hostility or violence.” Non-believers not mentioned.… Read the rest

Teenagers are the best suicide bombers, because they’re easy to train and to brainwash.… Read the rest

Miller’s school told his mother: “If he looks that way, if he talks that way, if he walks that way, there’s absolutely nothing they could do to protect him.”… Read the rest

Religious homophobes “are increasingly being attacked and vilified for their views,” a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council.… Read the rest

Smaller ones have less.… Read the rest

“There are a million Hindus in the UK but only 30 Hindu primary school places a year for them.” Beg the question much?… Read the rest

“…catastrophes are the just punishments of God” inasmuch as “to the guilt of the Original Sin are added our personal and collective sins.”… Read the rest

Universities would be forbidden to fire anyone “based on the faculty member’s or student’s conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design.”… Read the rest

Anthroposophic medicine is based on many ideas with no basis whatsoever in science that can best be described as pure magical thinking.… Read the rest