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Secularism and the limits of progress?
Patrick J. Corbeil, Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World (Palgrave Macmillan) • 2 December 2021 • pp 198 Image provided by Palgrave MAcmillan We live...
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‘Words are the only victors’ – Salman Rushdie’s ‘Victory City’, reviewed
Cover of Salman Rushdie’s Victory City. Published by Jonathan Cape, 9 February 2023. Image copyright Jonathan Cape. How, it might be asked, can Salman Rushdie’s new novel about a semi-divine sorceress...
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Blasphemy and bishops: how secularists are navigating the culture wars
St Stephen’s Hall, Houses of Parliament, Westminster. IMage: Snapshots of the Past, via Wikimedia Commons. In the last fortnight, the National Secular Society participated in two quite different...
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Bring on the British republic – Graham Smith’s ‘Abolish the Monarchy’, reviewed
Abolish the Monarchy, cover of first edition. Image: Penguin, 2023. During the coronation of King Charles III, the Metropolitan Police arrested 64 people, most of whom they claimed were there to...
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‘This rebarbative profession’– Rory Stewart’s ‘Politics on the Edge’, reviewed
Rory Stewart, Spotted At a café in central london. Image: Freethinker (2023) It is rare for a political memoir to be anything but a blandly written exercise in self-congratulation, and it is to Rory...
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