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EVEN THE TEACHING OF HISTORY IS SECTARIAN
Date Posted: 2020-07-17
A new study reveals that the choice of local study in GCSE history is made largely on tribal lines

THE THREE CONMEN OF CORONA
Date Posted: 2020-07-06
The crisis has exposed the unfitness to govern of Trump, Bolsonaro and Johnson

DEFAMATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND
Date Posted: 2020-07-05
A new defamation law came into force on the 1st January 2014 in England, but similar changes have not been made in Northern Ireland.

IRELAND AND SLAVERY
Date Posted: 2020-07-01
Ireland has a mixed record, with both supporters and opponents prominent in modern history

THE WRATH OF GOD
Date Posted: 2020-05-03
FUNDAMENTALIST religious believers love to blame natural disasters on God.

2020s CHALLENGES FOR HUMANISM
Date Posted: 2020-05-02
The Humanist Challenge to Current Inhumane Ideas

PUBLIC DEBATE IS A BEAR PIT
Date Posted: 2019-06-14
Public debates may entertain but they rarely educate