Books From Bob’s Library is a semi-regular series in which freethought book collector and National Secular Society historian Bob Forder delves into his extensive collection and shares… Read More

The concept of the ‘Marketplace of Ideas’ is widely considered to be a liberal one. It is, indeed, liberals who have argued for the free exchange of ideas as a positive good. How… Read More

Introducing Books From Bob’s Library, a semi-regular series in which freethought book collector and National Secular Society historian Bob Forder delves into his extensive collection a… Read More

Editorial introduction Below is reproduced, with permission from the Estate of Christopher Hitchens (to whom I express my gratitude), the final chapter of Hitchens’s classic freethi… Read More

Michael Meyer has produced this splendidly researched and written account of the 1877 trial of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for republishing the American doctor Charles Knowlton&rs… Read More

Faith Watch is an idiosyncratically compiled monthly round-up of the errors, disasters and absurdities following in the wake of religions around the world, by our assistant editor, Daniel Ja… Read More

‘Wha wants me’, a caricature of Thomas Paine by Isaac Cruikshank (1792). Find out more here. 9 February marks the birthday of the great revolutionary and freethinker Thomas Pa… Read More

image credit: Sgerbic. Image used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Introduction Lawrence Krauss is a Canadian-American physicist and writer… Read More

‘Two journalists discuss freedom of speech’, Image generated by Dall-E from a prompt by E. Park, December 2023.2023 has been an eventful year for free thought, humanism and secul… Read More

graham smith photographed during this interview in the conway hall foyer café. Image: Freethinker (2023). Introduction On 25 November, 2023, at the historic Conway Hall in Londo… Read More

Introducing ‘Faith Watch’ – a monthly round-up of the errors, disasters and absurdities following in the wake of religion around the world, by our assistant editor, Daniel… Read More

The Freethinker editorial team: Daniel Sharp and Emma Park. A round-up of recent and upcoming talks by the Freethinker editorial team, as well as a couple from the National Secular Society a… Read More

Photo by Eric Espada/Getty ImagesThe Miami Dolphins enter their bye week with a record of 7-3 — winners of their last four games. It has been quite the run for this team and they now s… Read More

Victorian Birth Control appliances and related devices: from The Wife’s Handbook, 1887 edition. Image: Bob ForderThe people and places really responsible for fundamental political and… Read More

Front window of Leicester’s Secular Hall (opened April 1881), with Freethinker poster. Image: E. ParkSeptember is History Month at the Freethinker. We shall be publishing articles that… Read More

Vivesini: Poster. Copyright Laburnum Productions 2022.Readers of the Freethinker are cordially invited to a closed private screening of Vivesini, a new rationalist film by Laburnum Productio… Read More

Humanist Month at the Freethinker continues with an article by Madeleine Goodall, Humanist Heritage Coordinator at Humanists UK. Image credit: Humanists UKNearly three years ago, Humanist… Read More

May is Humanism Month at the Freethinker. We will be exploring different conceptions of humanism, past and present. In 1986, the literary scholar Ian MacKillop published The British Ethic… Read More

The weekly look back on what has been published on the Registered Local Bus Services site over the last week. As always click through for more details including timetables and maps.Another b… Read More