Democracy observers were dismayed in January when Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that ...

The Church of England is in crisis once again, following the recent resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the ...

To many evangelicals, Trump is not just a president but a messiah. How did he gain such mythic power, and where will it lead?

Campaigners want assisted dying to be available to those who are suffering from intolerable physical conditions ...

Matthew D. Taylor is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, and the author of "The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is ...

Tony Gilland is Science and Society Director at the Institute of Ideas and is editor of Science: Can we trust the experts (Hodder & Stoughton, June 2002) ...

When an electron dropped from a high-energy orbit to a lower-energy one, it gave out light with an energy equal to the ...

Hundreds of wide-eyed teenagers bounce up and down in a blacked-out auditorium chanting, “DA-DA DA-DA-DA-DA.” Searchlights flail and a band clad in baggy trousers and jumpers drives the crowd into a ...

into the wriggling earth for a rainbow with an honest spade. Dannie Abse, “Letter to Alex Comfort” (1977) From 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, a group of poets and musicians began to ...

Bill Cooke is the author of The Blasphemy Depot: A Hundred Years of the Rationalist Press Association and six other works on the history of freethought. He teaches philosophy in Warrington.