Stephen Law has written a thought-provoking article about the problems with the “faith schools” initiatives in the UK while carefully distinguishing his criticism from religious schools in general. He argues that “all schools, religious or not, should be liberal, in the sense that they should encourage young people to think critically and for themselves about [...]
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At Spiked Online, Frank Furedi wants to defend humanism against its greatest enemy…”secular misanthropes.”
In this year we have seen attacks on the church-state divide across the entire Western world. The US has banned embryonic stem cell research. In the UK there’s been a trend towards legitimising fringe religions by allowing them to run “faith schools” [...]
A 2003 Manx stamp celebrating the work of Nigel Kneale
You realise what you’re implying? That we owe our human condition here to the intervention of insects?
So wrote Nigel Kneale, premier British screenwriter, in what is probably his most famous work: “Quatermass and the Pit”. As both BBC drama (1958) and Hammer-produced feature film [...]
