The change is not about banning groups. Instead, it seems to be mainly aimed at ensuring that the government doesn’t ...

Humanism lost a titan of the movement in April when the American philosopher Daniel Dennett died at the age of 82. One of the so-called “Four Horsemen of New Atheism”, along with Richard Dawkins, ...

Four metres up the path, I hold up a peppercorn to represent Mercury; four more metres and a dry-roast peanut for Venus. You ...

The US vetoed a recent bid from the Palestinian Authority for UN recognition – but western rhetoric is changing ...

The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society “Winter’s Gibbet” in Northumberland marks the site of a murder and ...

'The Death of the Deer' (1867) by Gustave Courbet, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie in Besançon. Credit: Bridgeman You have a struggling mammal in your mouth. You clamp your teeth into his ...