Martin In The Margins

This verdict had nothing to do with the actual evidence. It's all about  la faccia , face. They had to convict her. Now, with the convi...

I don't have much sympathy for the men who burned copies of the Koran in a pub car park in Gateshead, and I suspect they weren’t moti...

Well done Peter Tatchell, for sticking up for the Christian street preacher fined for 'homophobic remarks’ that were ‘aggravated by re...

I'm working up to a proper post on religion, secularism and the law, but I'm pushed for time right now and just wanted to splurge a ...

I've just added the 'Keep libel laws out of science' button to the bottom of this page. See here for the original story about t...

Give your support to this new campaign which 'calls on the UK government to recognise that Sharia law is abitrary and discriminatory an...

A 44-year-old Salford man, Syed Mustafa Zaidi, has been convicted of child cruelty after forcing two teenage boys to beat themselves with a ...

Back from a week away, I find I missed the business about the Sikh schoolgirl and her bangle, which has some similarities with these cases ...