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Religious Exemptions Fuel Bigotry – Ban Non-Stun Slaughter

January 10, 2019 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

One law for all is the only sustainable way to beat bigots – Chris Sloggett from the National Secular Society calls for a ban on non-stun slaughter. As the new year opened, a measure preventing the slaughter of animals without pre-stunning came into effect in the Flanders region, which roughly covers the northern half of Belgium. A […] Read more

Plastic, Periods and Poverty – Saving the Environment or Shaming Women?

January 9, 2019 | by Emma Chesworth | 0 Comments

Shaming women into shelling out money for expensive replacements of necessary plastic sanitary products is not the way to protect the environment. As we step into the New Year, talk and thoughts inevitably concentrate on resolutions for the coming 12 months. This year, more than ever, it feels there is a move away from vowing […] Read more

Drag Queen Story Time – Straight-Up Virtue-Signalling

January 8, 2019 | by Jo Bartosch | 3 Comments

If you go down to the library today you could be in for a big surprise. It might have passed you by, but for the past two years councils across the UK have been inviting drag performers to read stories to pre-school age children. To date there have been 50, reaching 8,000 kids. The stated aim […] Read more

Who’s Afraid of the Bedfellow Wolf? – A Response to Quillette

January 7, 2019 | by Dan Fisher | 3 Comments

Watch or read as Dan Fisher lays out the case against a Quillette article arguing that radical feminists are as bad as extremist transactivists. If the above embedded video is not available on your browser, you can access the video here. On January 2nd, Quillette published an article warning against ‘centrist liberals’ teaming up with […] Read more

The Solution to the War On Drugs and the Addiction Crisis? The Free Market.

January 3, 2019 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

by Burt Walker The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure and has exacerbated the addiction crisis gripping America. Legalization offers a solution. In April 2016 my then-23-year-old daughter told me she was an addict and asked for my help. This began a journey of heartache, frustration, fear, and anger. My desperate search for information […] Read more

Yemeni Baha’i Says Hamed Haydara’s Recieved Unfair Appeal Hearing, No Verdict Yet

January 3, 2019 | by Tara Abhasakun | 0 Comments

Yemeni Baha’is say that Hamed Haydara, a Baha’i sentenced to death one year ago, received unfair treatment by a judge in an appeal hearing on Monday. A Baha’i in Yemen told Conatus News that Hamed Bin Haydara, a Baha’i sentenced to death by Yemen’s ruling Houthi party Ansar Allah since January 2018, received unfair and […] Read more

Developing 21st Century Institutions for a Transnational World

January 2, 2019 | by Vladan Lausevic | 0 Comments

In order for nations to solve contemporary problems such as migration and immigration, our institutions need to update themselves for the 21st century. Since 2015 and the refugee crisis aftermath there has been much debate about citizenship in Europe. In Sweden, a solution for integrating newcomers has included different proposals relating to citizenship tests. Regardless, […] Read more

The Hijab Crisis – Unveiling Islamic Privilege in Postcolonial Nigeria

January 1, 2019 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

Protests and scuffles over the use of the Islamic veil by Muslim schoolgirls have been sweeping across Nigeria in what is being called The Hijab Crisis. Read more

Does Africa Need a Religious Reformation?

December 23, 2018 | by Leo Igwe | 0 Comments

While Africa is rapidly changing and progressing in many ways, Christian and Islamic fundamentalism hold the continent and its people back. Africa’s religious landscape is changing very rapidly, in various ways. These changes include the introduction of new religions and adjustments in the modes of worship as well as the personalities that are revered. Transformations […] Read more

For a New Left – Racism and Imperialism

December 21, 2018 | by Dan Fisher | 2 Comments

Only a global, united movement can work to deconstruct the institutions of state and corporate power which fuel racism and serve to keep us divided. Read more

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