talking
reading
I'm tribal about sport, not patriotic about Britain
Göteborgs-Posten, 12 August 2012
The mad circus and the sublime games
Göteborgs-Posten, 28 July 2012
Poetry of the Taliban
Göteborgs-Posten,
I July 2012
Enemies of free speech
Index on Censorship, Spring 2012
Breivik's jihad
Expressen, 25 April 2012
Shawshank without the redemption
Bergens Tidende,
11 April 2012
Killing babies
Göteborgs-Posten, 18 March 2012
To name the unnameable
Pandaemonium, 22 January 2012
The terrorists that are and the terrorists that aren't
Bergens Tidende, 17 January 2012
Embryo research, scientific patents and Greenpeace
Göteborgs-Posten, 2 January 2012
A year of momentous change and of litle change
Bergens Tidende, 2 January 2012
Politics without democracy, democracy without politics
Bergens Tidende
9 November 2011
The last Crusade
New Humanist,
Nov / Dec 2011
Turning morality on its embryonic head
Bergens Tidende
23 October 2011
The morality of the euro crisis
Bergens Tidende
11 October 2011
Earthquakes, neutrinos and this thing called science
Bergens Tidende
4 October 2011
Myths and realities of 9/11
Bergens Tidende
9 September 2011
Moral poverty and the riots
Göteborgs-Posten
14 August 2011
The tragic ironies of Breivik's terror
Bergens Tidende
30 July 2011
The best way of dealing with xenophobia
New York Times
28 July 2011
Truth and power
Expressen
15 July 2011
No contact
Göteborgs-Posten
10 July 2011
Assimilation's failure, terrorism's rise
New York Times
7 July 2011
Arts for whose sake?
in Beyond Belief: Theatre, Freedom of Expression and Public Order
Index on Censorship, 2011
The science of seeing what you want to see
Göteborgs-Posten
24 June 2011
The price of a free press
Bergens Tidende
23 May 2011
Torture works? So oppose it
Expressen, 13 May 2011
Killed by American bullets, buried by Arab revolts
Göteborgs-Posten, 3 May 2011
Test tube truths
New Humanist, May 2011
Off with their (not so) symbolic heads
Göteborgs-Posten, 29 April 2011
Japan's two catastrophes
Bergens Tidende, 24 March 2011
No going back
Göteborgs-Posten, 24 February 2011
A revolt for whose benefit?
Expressen,
10 February 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood may gain power in Egypt by default
Comment is Free, 31 January 2011
The Islamic paradox
Bergens Tidende, 27 January 2011
What is education for?
Göteborgs-Posten, 31 December 2010
Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have to worship heroes
Göteborgs-Posten, 18 December 2010
The making of a moral nihilist
Expressen, 16 December 2010
We used to want to change society. Now we just want to coerce the poor.
Bergens Tidende, 24 November 2010
A faithful search for identity
Göteborgs-Posten, 14 November 2010
A Merkel attack on multicultrualism
Expressen, 27 October 2010
Picking up from where Labour left off
Bergens Tidende, 25 October 2010
The Swedish challenge
Expressen, 22 September 2010
Tony Blair's Journey
Bergens Tidende, 13 September 2010
The clash of civilizations at Ground Zero
Göteborgs-Posten, 21 August 2010
Hype, fear and Synthia
Göteborgs-Posten, 10 July 2010
Veiled values
Göteborgs-Posten, 13 June 2010
Death of the university?
Bergens Tidende, 27 May 2010
What realignment of politics means
Comment is Free, 1 May 2010
How to become a real Muslim
Göteborgs-Posten, 18 April 2010
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?
Bergens Tidende, 9 April 2010
Multiculturalism undermines diversity
Comment is Free, 17 March 2010
The ghost of James Bulger
Bergens Tidende, 14 March 2010
I despise him. But that's no reason to ban him.
Independent, 6 March 2010
False reassurance
Bergens Tidende, 8 January 2010
Why we should not censor ourselves
Index on Censorship, 18 December 2009
The real debate begins where the science ends
Bergens Tidende, 13 December 2009
Toxic claims
Bergens Tidende, 24 November 2009
How the far right distorts the moral compass
Bergens Tidende, 29 October 2009
The new language of diversity
Channel 4 online,
26 October 2009
The prize for not being Dubya
Bergens Tidende, 11 October 2009
Who's afraid of the BNP?
BBC News Magazine, 28 September 2009
A work in progress
Independent, 20 July 2009
Burning the book
National Theatre programme for The Black Album
July 2009
Pimping Ida
New Humanist online, 23 May 2009
Shadow boxing
New Humanist, May / June 2009
'Take me to your leader'
Harry's Place, 23 April 2009
How to make a riot
Pickled Politics, 21 April 2009
After the fatwa, the free speech wars
spiked review of books, April 2009
Kureishi on the Rushdie Affair
Prospect, April 2009
Race obsession harms those it is meant to help
Sunday Times, 29 March 2009
Reinventing the sacred for a Godless age
butterfliesandwheels.com, 25 March 2009
A marketplace of outrage
New Statesman, 12 March 2009
Wilders shore of free speech endangered
The Australian, 16 February 2009
Exploding the fatwa myths
Comment is Free, 12 February 2009
The book-burning that changed Britain forever
Sunday Times, 1 February 2009
How Israel created its monster
Bergens Tidende, 10 January 2009
Shadow of the fatwa
Index on Censorship, December 2008
Even racists have rights
Bergens Tidende, 5 December 2008
Walking on eggshells
Comment is Free. 1 October 2008
Self-censor and be damned!
The Times, 29 September 2008
How the West was lost for free speech
The Australian, 26 September 2008
Out of bounds
Index on Censorship, Autumn 2008 (volume 37, issue4)
Identity is that which is given
butterfliesandwheels.com, 9 July 2008
Mistaken identity
New Humanist, July / August 2008
The race debate: nothing to do with race
The Times, 2 July 2008
Why both sides are wrong in the race debate
spiked review of books, July 2008
Law and the wives of others
The Australian, 28 June 2008
Racial divisions
Prospect online, June 2008
The science of race and the politics of ignorance
The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 41 (2008)
Mitigating guilt or adapting to change?
Bergens Tidende, 17 April 2008
Islamophobia and Islamophilia
Weltwoche, 28 February 2008
The archbishop and the sharia
Bergens Tidende, 14 February 2008
Be careful what you think
Bergens Tidende, 27 December 2007
The paradox of immigration
Bergens Tidende, 26 Novmber 2007
'I care about the beauty of a page more than about freedom of speech'
Bergens Tidende, 25 October 2007
The blankness of being British
Bergens Tidende, 30 September 2007
Who owns knowledge?
Index on Censorship, Autumn 2007
Should science be colourblind?
Catalyst, September 2007
I'm sorry, I need to apologise
Bergens Tidende, 22 August 2007
Engaging with diversity
Bergens Tidende, 14 August 2007
Why do we still believe in race?
Catalyst, August 2007
Letter from London
Bergens Tidende, 5 July 2007
No bauble for free speech
Bergens Tidende, 29 June 2007
Humans and other animals
1000 Books to change your life, 2007
Don't incite censorship
Index on Censorship, June 2007
Mourning sickness in a culture of fear
Bergens Tidende, 24 May 2007
Ethical odyssey
RSA Magazine, February 2007
Thinking outside the box
Catalyst. January-February 2007
How green are my ethics?
Bergens Tidende, 23 January 2007
Merry Xmas from an atheist
Bergens Tidende, 23 December 2006
A leaving as morally bankrupt as the coming
Bergens Tidende, 6 December 2006
Free speech in a plural society
Eurozine, 23 November 2006
A velied debate
Bergens Tidende, 20 October 2006
Debating Singer
The Philosophers' Magazine, Issue 36, 4th quarter 2006
The theology of respect
Bergens Tidende, 22 September 2006
Amartya Sen's Illusions of identity
Prospect, August 2006
Who's tampering with the old game?
The Times, 22 August 2006
Too much respect
Prospect, March 2006
Multiculturalism and the road to terror
Handelsblatt, 3 January 2006
Born in Bradford
Prospect, October 2005
Multiculturalism fans the flames of Islamic extremism
The Times, 16 July 2005
Is this the future we really want? Different drugs for different races
The Times, 18 June 2005
Myths of the stranger at the gate
The Times, 7 March 2005
The Islamophobia myth
Prospect, February 2005
Too diverse?
Prospect, March 2004
The dirty D-word
The Guardian, 29 October 2003
How to stop worrying and learn to love playing God
The Age, 11 July 2003
Human conditions
Prospect, October 2002
Against multiculturalism
New Humanist, June 2002
All cultures are not equal
spiked-online, May 2002
The real value of diversity
Connections, Winter 2002
Don't panic
New Statesman, 8 October 2001
The moral clone
Prospect, May 2001
Let them die
Prospect, November 2000
Why black will beat white at the Olympics
New Statesman, 18 September 2000
Natural science
Prospect, August 2000
Debate with Peter Singer: Should we grant rights to apes?
Prospect, May 1999
Stone age man in a space age age world?
Prospect, August 1998
Annotated bibliography of nonsense
Independent on Sunday, 28 June 1998
An expression of the facts
Independent on Sunday, 1 February 1998
No platform or no democracy?
New Statesman, 6 September 1996