Society

Growing up amidst conflict and turmoil, it is easy to normalise living under threat - but we should guard against dehumanising the other side

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, by Nicholas Spencer, paints a history of entwined attempts to understand, glossing over religion's response to conflicting ideas

Ian Haworth left a coercive group in 1978, knowing he had to warn people bout the dangers of cults - so for 45 years, he ran a cult information hotline

Jesus was likely born in what is now Palestine, and he was Jewish - but neither fact should have any bearing on modern geopolitical conflicts

Many scholars have tried to identify the real events that inspired ancient myths - but with populations migrating, and stories changing, any connection to real history may be long lost

Andrew Bridgen MP promised an honest parliamentary debate on excess deaths since the Covid vaccine rollout - what he gave us was clearly not that

Latterly famous for his breakfast cereal invention, John Harvey Kellogg was a religious zealot, eugenicist, and highly prominent early 20th Century quack

During coverage of the trial of Lucy Letby, we didn't need to hear from graphologists - the pseudoscience of deriving psychological insights from someone's handwriting