Taylor and Trevor-Roper dealt with controversy by simply getting stuck into the next round of acrimony and recrimination. Much better than a libel suit.… Read the rest

Beneath the ultramodern veneer of skyscrapers dotting Abu Dhabi’s desert landscape lies an illiberal society that severely curtails citizens’ fundamental rights.… Read the rest

Little money, turf wars, and tepid support bordering on neglect.… Read the rest

Sadia Sheikh left the family home to study after her parents tried to arrange a marriage with a cousin she had never met. She was shot dead on October 22, 2007.… Read the rest

Of course not. Marc Alan Di Martino looks at the accounts.… Read the rest

Scotland for Marriage means marriage as a privilege from which some groups are barred – just as Focus on the Family means some families aren’t included.… Read the rest

Entire communities throw untold sums of money at the slimmest hope that these patients will recover at the Burzynski Clinic, and the Observer finds this uplifting.… Read the rest

The response attempts to justify its coverage and blames bloggers for “aggression, sanctimony and a disregard for the facts.”… Read the rest

Unlike other dinosaur nests found with fossil eggs, the babies in this nest appear to have been about a year old when they died. Parental care!… Read the rest

Also “aggression, sanctimony and a disregard for the facts.”… Read the rest

The MB’s Freedom and Justice Party, about 40%, and the Salafist Nour Party, about 25%.… Read the rest

Ikwro director Diana Nammi said families often tried to deny the existence of honour
attacks and those who carried them out were “very much respected”.… Read the rest

This is the first time that scientists have discovered this humanlike ability in an insect.… Read the rest

Muslims, Christians, atheists, liberals, conservatives –  for every group outrage has become an expression of self-definition.… Read the rest

A report in Saudi Arabia has warned that if Saudi women were given the right to drive, it would spell the end of virginity in the country.… Read the rest

It’s perfectly all right, because once they’re kidnapped, the infidel men don’t own them any more.… Read the rest

Body: “this research did not account for lifestyle factors such as other foods or exercise which could also have had an effect.”… Read the rest

In Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State, Audi proposes a novel and forceful account of the proper role of religious conviction in democratic politics.… Read the rest

The society is acting on behalf of atheist councillor Clive Bone, who had tried to have the prayers stopped.… Read the rest

Even in more secular Canada, distrust of atheists ran high.… Read the rest