At least three Irish men are fighting with Kurds in Syria, part of an international battalion of ‘villagers, students, sons of butchers, socialists and anarchists’

The argument that modern Turkey is rolling back its historical identity is not difficult to make

George Hook, decrying the erosion of civility, fails to practise what he preaches

Populist rants of Stephen Fry and Richard Dawkins insult intelligence as well as the faithful

Atheist author rails against Ireland's blasphemy law but says he would ‘love’ Irish citizenship

‘We cherish the fact that we have strong separation between church and state’

Unthinkable: ‘Catholic agnostic’ Gary Gutting criticises pseudoscientific putdowns of religion

Scientists follow up ‘plausible’ encounters with species thought to have died out

For large sections of the population, Christianity is of no more interest than astrology, flat-Earthism or water dousing. It is no longer even worth rejecting.

It's December 2016 - the likes of Home Alone and It’s A Wonderful Life could do with a bit of updating

‘Being disabled is a way of being a minority,’ says philosopher Elizabeth Barnes

The very idea of God is in contest, but it’s no longer as simple as believer v atheist

Broadcaster discusses his spiritual journey

We may not choose to actively support something - but heaven help anyone who tries to say that we are not entitled to it.

An astrophysicist and a philosopher have teamed up to examine how experts disagree

Thursday is ‘feast day’ for three good causes - but only philosophers are really persecuted

The geneticist best known for his book ‘The Selfish Gene’ has always been driven by ‘a love of truth, a love of clarity and an almost physical discomfort at obscurity’

‘Everybody thinks we’re cold-hearted killers and it’s not that,’ Sabrina Corgatelli says

Retweeting praise might make it seem like you are not boasting. You’re fooling nobody

‘You have to write off those people’ who put the Bible ahead of science, author says