Shalu Raizada (Middle). Photo provided by the author.On August 15, India’s 76th Independence Day, Aditi* and Shrey*, a married Hindu couple, visited Ishrat Kazmi, a retired school prin… Read More
‘Children at Fen Ditton Junior School sit at their desks and say Grace before they drink their mid-morning milk’, 1944. Image: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer… Read More
From the Jesus and Mo series. First published 14th January 2015.
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Exo-planet K2-18b: artist’s impression. Image: Arndt Stelter via Wikimedia Commons.New signs of life elsewhere in the galaxy? The BBC recently reported that NASA’s James Webb Spa… Read More
Cartoon by Mohammed Jones. First published on jesusandmo.net, 31 May 2023. Reproduced with permission.
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The ethic of freethought and other addresses and essaysI have allowed the original preface to this work, as well as one or two essays, to be again reprinted with but slight revision, not bec… Read More
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) in 1917. Image via Wikimedia Commons.President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triumphed in a closely contested election in May, ensuring another five years… Read More
‘KaZoHa’, the Abuja Safe House, at its launch in late 2019. Mubarak Bala is standing on the far left; Amina Ahmed is in blue, third from the left. Image: Humanist Mutual Aid Netw… Read More
[Editor’s note: Reprinted from the Freethinker, 28 March 1970, pp. 100 – 101. Images of the article as originally published appear at the end. Some organisations have changed the… Read More
Centenary celebrations at the Freethinker, July 1981, with Jim Herrick centre. Photograph by Barry Duke, editor of the Freethinker from 1998–January 2022. page copyright: Freethinker (… Read More
Amree Maharaj, Chanda’s mother. Still from a filmed interview conducted by Shaukat Korai, Pakistan, 2023.‘We are Hindus. Shoot to kill us, but don’t take our children away… Read More
Freethinker, vol. 102, no. 12, December 1982, p. 190.The above image is of page 190 of the Freethinker, vol. 102, no. 12, December 1982. It includes a letter by Albert E. Standley, which led… Read More
Mind in animalsMind in animals -by Ludwig BüchnerThe question of mind in animals and of their intellectual capacities as compared with those of men is as old as man's thought; it can sc… Read More
Humanly Possible, by Sarah Bakewell. Image: Chatto & Windus 2023. Sarah Bakewell is what you might call a non-organised humanist. That is not to say she is disorganised (far from it), bu… Read More
Nuriyah Khan, an ex-Muslim who runs a YouTube channel. In Pakistan, religion exerts a significant influence over society. This often results in restricted freedom of expression for those wit… Read More
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts, by Jed Perl (Knopf, 2022). As W.H. Auden put it, ‘If the criterion of art were its power to incite to action, Goebbels would be one of the… Read More
The Semitic gods and the BibleSemitic gods and the Bible - by D. M. Bennett -Being over three hundred pages from "The gods and religions of ancient and modern times." Written while unjustlyD… Read More
Steven Greer at the Oxford Institute for British Islam. Image: Declan HenryIntroduction
An expert on human rights might seem to be an unlikely target for censorship by a British universit… Read More
From the Freethinker cover page, January 2000. 23 years later, what has changed?Suppose it were reported that three baby girls had bled to death following Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in… Read More
John Lennox and Christopher Hitchens, ‘Is God Great?’ debate, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, 3 March 2009. Photo: stepher via Wikimedia Commons. We live in an era of st… Read More
Laura Dodsworth at Waterstones, Piccadilly, February 2023. Photo: E. ParkIntroduction
Until three years ago, Laura Dodsworth was a photojournalist, known for Bare Reality, a project in th… Read More
This is an edited version of a paper originally given at Freethought in the Long Nineteenth Century: New Perspectives, a conference at Queen Mary University of London, on 9 September 2022… Read More
Ibn Rushd, Latinised as Averroes, by D. Cunego, after Raphael’s School of Athens, engraving, 1785. Credit: Wellcome Library, London, via Wikimedia Commons.Religious dogma inevitably hi… Read More
The Freethinker has previously discussed attempts by Pastafarians in Austria, the Netherlands and elsewhere to achieve the same rights and privileges as recognised religions – or at le… Read More
Originally given as a paper to the Leicester Secular Society, 11 September 2022
George Jacob HOlyoake and Charles Bradlaugh when young.Introduction
Bradlaugh and Holyoake were the two… Read More
Jesus and Mo (2022). October is Civil Liberties Month at the Freethinker.October is Civil Liberties Month at the Freethinker. We here present a guest cartoon from Mohammed Jones, the pseudon… Read More