The past few days has been quite busy with news articles with some (tenuous) relevance to atheists, so here are a couple of choice links.
29 March - Richard Dawkins voted Reader’s Digest Author of the Year for The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and scientist, was named author of the year for his demolition [...]

In today’s The Guardian, Stuart Jeffries has an article ‘reporting’ on the vicious and uncompromising battle between believers and non-believers.
His opening commentary comes in the form of a quote from one Colin Slee, the Dean of Southwark (whatever that is):
“We are witnessing a social phenomenon that is about fundamentalism,” says Colin Slee, the Dean of [...]

Tony Blair last night announced Roman Catholic adoption agencies will not have an exemption from gay adoption rights, but they will have a delay of 20 months before implementing the equality laws.
The Prime Minister, who brokered the compromise in an intensive round of telephone calls over the weekend, appeared to have won over the opposing [...]

Over at The Guardian, Madeleine Bunting has opined that the US-style culture wars seeping into Britain are an absurd distraction. One only has to glance at her diatribe to realise how short sighted and just plain wrong this woman is.
Of course, it’s daft. … [G]ay adoption and Catholicism is an issue that will materially [...]

An article in today’s The Guardian reports on a British woman that lay dead in her mother’s home for five months after visiting Lourdes, France.
The body of a British woman lay concealed by her mother for nearly five months at their home near the Catholic sanctuary of Lourdes, it emerged yesterday.
French police discovered the body [...]