Writing for my life
It’s a delicious feeling to know I’ve misled everyone…out of preservation. For twenty years, I’ve given away my…
Freethought History Webinar #5: A Brief History of the Downfall of God. With S. T. Joshi (14 October 2025).
An invitation to the fifth in our Freethought History Webinar series.
Religious privilege and assisted dying: an unhealthy relationship
This is a slightly updated version of an article that was first published and commissioned by the Espace de…
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.'
From the archive: The Freethinker and the Second World War
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, and below is reproduced an…
The clothes have no emperor
Some years ago, I debated a Muslim lecturer at Manchester University (the debate can be viewed here) on…
The ‘Freethinker’: The Voice of Freethought (Freethought History Festival panel)
Last year, from 30 August to 1 September, the Freethinker-sponsored Freethought History Festival took place at Conway Hall…
Getting away with genocide: the Ottoman Empire in its twilight years
The sheer scale of the systemic crimes and horror unleashed by the Ottoman Empire in its twilight years…