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Six feet under: meeting Britain’s Gravedigger of the Year

To his surprise, Jonny Yaxley, a former landscaper, found he enjoyed the craftsmanship involved in preparing a perfect grave. And…

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The poppy hijabs have become a politically correct way of airing a suspicion that all Muslims are “basically terrorist sympathisers”.…

By Chris Allen

John Gray should attack his ideas, not his character.

By Jerry A Coyne

Everyone seems to know that the moderate Muslim exists, but nobody seems to really agree on what he or she…

By Bina Shah

His atheism is its own kind of narrow religion.

By John Gray

A major barrier to career aspirations among Muslims has been their inability to take on student (or any other) loans…

By Vasilis Pappas and Paul Davies

The “We’ve been lied to” argument goes only so far. Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset;…

By Mehdi Hasan

Religious illiteracy leads to an anxiety about the role of religion in the public sphere: from fear of terrorism to…

By Adam Dinham