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Richard Dawkins

July 2022

  • Richard Coles, left, and Richard Dawkins.

    Celebrity dining across the divide
    Rev Richard Coles and Richard Dawkins dine across the divide: ‘The problem is he’s not swayed by evidence but by feeling’

    In our celebrity Dining across the divide special, the cleric meets the atheist biologist. Can they find any understanding on the value of faith?

April 2021

  • Richard Dawkins … “attempts at clarification inadequate” says AHA.

    Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title over trans comments

    American Humanist Association criticises academic for comments about identity using ‘the guise of scientific discourse’, and withdraws its 1996 honour

March 2021

  • A disused church in Port Glasgow

    The Guardian view on 'post-Christian' Britain: a spiritual enigma

    Editorial: The majority of us do not belong to any religion. But for most, atheism is not an option either

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best books of the 21st century

    Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000

February 2019

  • Sam Harris

    Sam Harris, the new atheist with a spiritual side

    The neuroscientist – and longtime exponent of meditation – talks about his new app and why he is definitely not an Islamophobe

January 2019

  • Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris.

    Book of the day
    The Four Horsemen review - whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?

    Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris ... were the apostles of atheism as fearless as they thought?

July 2018

  • Richard Dawkins

    The shifting patterns of English
    May I have a word… about marketing speak

    Jonathan Bouquet
    Partnerings and outcries stalk the land. Be afraid, be very afraid…

May 2018

  • Richard Dawkins

    Richard Dawkins wants to move to New Zealand to get away from Brexit 'madness'

    Scientist says half the population of Britain and US would prefer a country ‘where intellect might be appreciated’

March 2018

  • 4th May - OXFORD: Richard Dawkins in his home.( Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries

    Author and the Centre for Inquiry planning free ebook versions of his books in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian following a ‘stirring towards atheism’ in some Islamic countries

February 2018

  • Octopuses show imagination and intention in much of their behaviour and habits.

    For how long can we treat the suffering of animals as an inconvenient truth?

    Michael Brooks
    A revolution is coming in our relationship with ‘lower’ creatures, provoked by a greater knowledge of their cognition. Labour’s new plans for animal welfare are just a start

October 2017

  • Jeremy Taylor

    Other lives
    Jeremy Taylor obituary

    Other lives: Television producer and science writer who produced two popular books on evolution

September 2017

  • Bishops in the House of Lords

    Whether or not to disestablish the Church of England

    Letters: David Redshaw warns against following the US example, Fr Alec Mitchell intends to transfer to the Church in Wales, and John Boaler says Britain is increasingly secular

July 2017

  • Richard Dawkins.

    Richard Dawkins event cancelled over his 'abusive speech against Islam'

    Berkeley’s KPFA Radio cancels appearance by evolutionary biologist after learning of his ‘hurtful speech’ against the religion – a charge the author contests
  • RETOUCHED VERSION. Scientist, Author and Atheist Richard Dawkins. London. 13/08/13  Portrait by Andy Hall for the Observer New Review

    Books blog
    Dawkins sees off Darwin in vote for most influential science book

    A public poll to mark 30 years of the Royal Society book prizes sees The Selfish Gene declared the most significant – with women authors left on the margins
  • Richard Dawkins at his home in Oxford. Photograph by Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Richard Dawkins and Carlo Rovelli on science and culture – books podcast

    Two of the world’s foremost scientists discuss how to bridge the divide between the arts and sciences

January 2017

  • Carlo Rovelli

    Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli review – physics versus certainty

    The author of the million-selling Seven Brief Lessons on Physics rails against Richard Dawkins and the science-arts split

November 2016

  • Brian Clough

    Brief letters
    A tip for Trump and a search for tropes

  • Reasons My Son Is Crying 19 May 2013 He met Bill Murray. Submitted by: Laura R. Location: St. Andrew’s, Scotland

    The month in memes
    Vine is dead, but the meme lives on through Bill Murray and Tom Hanks

October 2016

  • The Beatles

    Time for Labour to reclaim Englishness

  • 4th May - OXFORD: Richard Dawkins in his home.( Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    'Science will never know it all': Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood and others predict the future

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