“Truth is overrated.”… Read the rest

The High Court will confirm whether the execution of Ms Ashtiani can go ahead next week.… Read the rest

Law resigned as Boston archbishop in 2002 – and fled prosecution, though the AP story doesn’t mention that.… Read the rest

“I had so much anger. I wanted to be heard. I thought I could do that by becoming the country’s first female suicide bomber.”… Read the rest

International Committee against Stoning has received information from Iran that the Islamic regime is trying to bring Mostafaei into disrepute.… Read the rest

Religious beliefs force some people to choose between knowledge and myth, while pointing out how religion can purvey ignorance is taboo.… Read the rest

ASA received 1,054 angry complaints about Marie Stopes advert from precisely the sort of hectoring Christian freaks it was designed to piss off.… Read the rest

The desert kingdom remains a draconian dictatorship that prohibits even the most basic of liberties.… Read the rest

Principled commitment to democracy, universal values and  multilateralism will either define liberalism or be disavowed in favour of dead-end isolationism.… Read the rest

“The trendier option involves incorporating Afghans into modernity by teaching them to live in a globalised present.”… Read the rest

Bishop does not agree that a high birth rate traps people in poverty. Easy for him.… Read the rest

Which is rudeness directed at their enemies instead of at them and their friends.… Read the rest

‘In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.’… Read the rest

Last month he “issued a fatwa” saying he’s like Mo and all Iranians have to do what he says.… Read the rest

Julian Huppert says political leaders tend to come up with a stance and then try to make the evidence fit it.… Read the rest

On the grounds that refusal to fund homeopathy would limit patient choice.… Read the rest

The Government said it is fine for doctors to give you pills that contain nothing whatsoever and charge them to the NHS.… Read the rest

You don’t choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.… Read the rest

Creationism, for example.… Read the rest

Yet  the Domestic Violence Prevention Bill has not been passed; Islamist senator says it is not ‘male-friendly’ and is contradictory to Islamic law.… Read the rest