Giles Fraser: Why don’t humanists give value to humans?

Humanists would do much more to persuade me of their world-view if they took more seriously the idea that the human is of fundamental value.

Paul Vallely Worship needs glory as well as guilt

“Well, there wasn’t much religion in that,” expostulated the old lady over coffee.

This means more pain for the poor

NO DOUBT the new Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas, was appointed on the basis that he would raise the temperature of the immigration debate

Simon Parke: Everything has a season

NEXT YEAR, I will almost certainly earn less than this year.

More logic, less bamboozling, please

FOR YEARS now, progressive pundits have flown increas­ingly speculative theories about why working-class Americans have become reliably Republican.

Poised between hope and cuts

In his lecture the composer James MacMillan lamented the ignorance and prejudice that religious people in the arts, culture, and media face daily about...

Leader: Wisdom needed in the White House

ELECTIONS for the 44th President of the United States are to be held on 4 November.

100 Years Ago: Mr Asquith’s ‘anodynes’

HOW to solve the question of Unemployment is a question which men of all parties are, with a deep sense of a common responsibility, anxiously considering...

The financial crisis is a chance to be fair

‘We should seize the opportunity, and recall our obligation to justice’



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