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October 2021

October 08, 2021

Only secular law can bring justice to French victims of clerical abuse

AN inquiry commissioned by the Catholic Church into clerical abuse in France has just concluded...

September 2021

September 29, 2021

‘Allah is not shy of the truth’

THE fine people at Ex-Muslims of North America shared a striking item today about Muhammad...

August 2021

August 30, 2021

Op-ed: Sleepwalking off the cliff

HERE we go again, watching New Orleans get hammered by a catastrophic hurricane. There will...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Op-ed: Good for the match trade

A NEWS outlet in Pakistan reports another one of those routine torture-murders of women that...

March 2021

March 31, 2021

Op-ed: My beliefs shall be your beliefs, like it or not

The US Senate has been working on a voting rights bill – that is, the...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Op-ed: A bit of a kerfuffle

So that was fun. I love watching as the large and unruly country I live...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Op-ed: Paris trial sent an appalling message to clerical abusers

LAST month, the Pope’s former Ambassador to France, ex-Papal Nuncio Luigi Ventura, above, was tried...

December 29, 2020

Op-ed: Defending the Honour of Mr God

DONALD Trump has been very friendly to Saudi Arabia during his stint as US President....

December 17, 2020

Op-ed: Government & Religion

IN November the UK Government launched an Independent Faith Engagement Review, headed by the Director...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

Op-ed: Barr’s final revenge

THERE'S just no end to it. Austin Sarat at Slate reports: Last week, the Trump...

October 2020

October 27, 2020

Op-ed: All the absolutes

I READ a piece by Fintan O’Toole about the US Attorney General William Barr, above,...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

A genuine American hero

THE long good-bye to civil rights hero Representative John Lewis this week has me (and...

June 2020

June 28, 2020

Op-ed: The fog thickens

People seem so confused right now – even more so than usual – about what...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

Op-ed: Job requirements

How about that Harvey Weinstein, huh? Found guilty on two counts, in spite of all...

November 2019

November 29, 2019

Op-ed: Making choices

The Dallas News reported the other day on Rick Perry’s Presidential Theology. Energy Secretary Rick...

October 2019

October 28, 2019

Op-ed: Intruders

A WEEK or two ago I was at my desk composing a blog post about...

September 2019

September 19, 2019

Op-ed: Happy Science, Margaret Thatcher and the issue of balance

EARLIER this month we carried a piece entitled 'Thatcher to give her views on Brexit...

July 2019

July 21, 2019

Op-ed: Ex-Muslims – a community in protest

When the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB) started 11 years ago in June 2007,...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Op-ed: Learning some actual history

There was much outrage in the US last week when first-term Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...

April 2019

April 01, 2019

Op-ed: Log Cabin Republicans have a queer view of equality

Log Cabin Republicans are a deluded group who work to persuade their fellow Republicans not...

January 2019

January 28, 2019

Op-ed: Protestors behaving badly

IF nothing else, the Covington Catholic High School boys have given us a nudge to...

October 2018

October 08, 2018

Op-ed: Compulsory nationalism

The BBC reports that a Texas school expelled a black student after she refused to...

December 2017

December 26, 2017

Be merry, god damn it!

Well Baby Jesus’s Pretend Birthday is over for another year, so now that everyone is...

November 2017

November 29, 2017

Identity and its discontents

I’ve been thinking about what we mean when we talk about identity and 'identity politics'....

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Living in an Age of Anger

Let’s talk about anger. We seem to be living in an Age of Anger, so...

September 2017

September 12, 2017

More – especially the young – discard Christianity in the UK

Britain is fast becoming one of the least religious countries in the world. Although vestiges...

September 03, 2017

Signs of godliness

Christians, as a rule, don't wear ridiculous garb. They leave that to their poncy spiritual...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

Pride parade in Vancouver rejects Iranian over veil float

Iranian Shawn Shirazi and his group Cirque de So Gay were denied entry to the...

August 28, 2017

A very bad man

We in the US have been feeling a little overwhelmed lately, what with a racist...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

Is a fascist Christian theocracy REALLY the stuff of paranoia?

When Hulu launched its highly-acclaimed dramatisation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale earlier...