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News and Views
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GALHA urged to ditch honorary vice-president.
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Iran teen hangings spark fury and disgust.
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Ban this cleric, says humanist group.
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Another Green joins GALHA’s VP ranks.
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Robin Cook, recently outed atheist.
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Success – but not without stress.
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Briefly ...
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World Watch edited by George Broadhead – news from Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, and the United Nations.
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Obituary for Sir Hermann Bondi by Andy Armitage.
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Features
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When Absurdity Leads to Atrocity – Only cast-iron certainty and blind faith can lead to the atrocities we have recently witnessed, argues Andy Armitage.
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Has Catholicism Become a Spent Force? – Should we really be worried about whatever threat the new pope and his pals pose to lesbian and gay people in civilised countries? J. Martin Stafford thinks not.
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Do We Really Want Gay Marriage? – Civil partnerships will soon be introduced in the United Kingdom, but many gays have demanded nothing less than marriage. New Yorker Michael DiSchiavi wonders why we need to ape straights.
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Towards a New Humanism – Diesel Balaam says that, as freethinkers, we must from time to time question our values.
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History Revisited – or History Revamped? – Following Pope Ratzinger’s visit to Germany, Matthew Thompson ponders on how Catholicism and National Socialism had much in common: “dictatorial manner and Byzantine secrecy among them”.
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Stateside Gossip – Warren Allen Smith brings us his quarterly roundup of celebrity gossip.
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Theatre
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Edinburgh Fringe and Book Festivals – Tony Challis brings us some highlights.
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Gossip
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Steven Dean – Lock up your sons!
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Books
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Mansel Stimpson reviews Ned Sherrin: The Autobiography, by Ned Sherrin.
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Andy Armitage reviews Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Simon Blackburn.
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Postbag
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Defence of free speech; Who are the bisexuals?; Same-sex marriage; The view from Norway; Pope and the Nazis; Freedom for Palestinians; Onward, humanist soldiers; What Abe really said?; Bakri – just like us!; and thanks, GALHA.
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