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From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?
Back in 2017, a resident-led campaign chased off planning applications for two gas power plants, one of which was to be built ...
From "The Face" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery to "Leigh Bowery!" at Tate Modern, young people are fascinated by ...
Syrian refugees in London after they arrived from Calais via the “Safe Passage” legal route (Alamy Stock Photo) On a warm afternoon last July, Ahmed went back in time. He and I exited the train at ...
In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica, many of whom left that country as children and grew up in the UK. In this ninth episode of With Reason, Luke de Noronha ...
The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...
16. “I am concerned about the impact gay marriage will have on society/schools.” There is no concern here, only prejudice. We can conclude this because there is absolutely no evidence to suggest gay ...
Why do we value some forms of knowledge over others? In this fourth episode of our podcast With Reason, we talk to Minna Salami about her bold new book ‘Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach ...
One day in 2016, Derk Venema, a Dutch academic specialising in legal philosophy, was browsing the internet for examples of “philosophically interesting questions about religious freedom” to show his ...
Octopuses are having a moment. So are slime moulds and honeybees. Mushrooms are in vogue. After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the ...