

Editor’s Welcome
Our main theme this month is religion – principally whether it's a force for good or evil – and our contributors have approached this in...

David Warden
Jan 31, 20242 min read
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YouGov: one in three religious people in the UK think religion does more harm than good
A survey conducted by the University of Birmingham and YouGov explores the beliefs of religious, spiritual and non-religious people in...

Maggie Hall
Jan 31, 20241 min read
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Readers’ Responses
From Barry Newman: A humanist response to Revd Richard Warden's article Not a Trojan Horse: the case for compulsory religious education...

Emails to the Editor
Jan 31, 20242 min read
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Is religion an opiate?
By Mohit Palagiri Mohit is a keen student of global humanist history and democratic politics. In this article, he looks at the likely...

Mohit Palagiri
Jan 31, 20248 min read
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When worldviews collide and make us do terrible things
All of us build a set of beliefs about reality based on our own personal lived experience which are deeply embedded and hugely consequential

Anthony Lewis
Jan 31, 20249 min read
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