Opinion
UNESCO: Putting religious privilege above gender equality
UNESCO says gender equality is one of its top priorities. But Megan Manson says it is protecting misogynistic attitudes... Read More »
Book review: ‘The Jesus Candidate: Political religion in a secular age’
Megan Manson and Alastair Lichten consider the importance of the Christian secularist view in James Paul Lusk's book.... Read More »
Secularism and National Libraries Week #LibraryLetters
Ahead of Libraries Week 2017 Alastair Lichten argues that libraries' values of free expression and pluralism illustrate... Read More »
'British values': a source of unity in polarised times
Efforts to promote 'British values' in schools are being criticised, mainly on account of their name, but these four... Read More »
The legacy of decades of abuse in a Catholic children's home
Hundreds of children died at Smyllum Park, a home in Lanarkshire run by the Catholic Church between 1864 and 1981.... Read More »
Lessons from the frontline of Islamic fundamentalism
Megan Manson explores autobiographies by two Muslim secularists whose lives have been directly intertwined with Islamist... Read More »
Britain should embrace secularism as it loses its religion
As new data suggests non-belief is at a record high, Chris Sloggett says secularists should be more assertive in making... Read More »
Cardinal Murphy O'Connor's cover-up of child abusers must be a lesson to the Catholic Church
Cormac Murphy O'Connor, the former Archbishop of Westminster, died on 1 September. NSS executive director Keith Porteous... Read More »
Beware the drip drip of religious exemptions
As a theme park lifts its ban on Sikh ceremonial swords, NSS campaigns director Stephen Evans questions the wisdom... Read More »
Ireland’s hospitals: some welcome secularisation
NSS executive director Keith Porteous Wood detects a long-overdue and decisive turn towards secularism in publicly... Read More »
The confessional shouldn’t shield child abuse from reporting
The Australian abuse commission is right not to exempt the confessional from reporting obligations, and its rigour... Read More »
Newcastle: what's faith got to do with it?
A group of mainly Muslim men has been convicted for sexual abuse in another British city. Amid a predictable response,... Read More »
Food for thought! Imposing worship in Australian schools
Blinkers go on when the topic is religion. So one parent in a Queensland school thought she would use food to explain... Read More »
Sam Brownback: Trump’s new man is no fan of religious freedom
The record of President Trump's new nominee exposes the hypocrisy of the US religious right. Chris Sloggett argues... Read More »
The BBC is overdoing religion
New figures show that the BBC is devoting hundreds of hours of programming to religion each year. NSS president Terry... Read More »
Church of England’s links with insurer undermines justice for survivors of clergy abuse
Anglican abuse victims believe the Church's close links with its insurer results in lower settlements to victims.... Read More »
Intolerant religion mustn’t dictate England’s education policy
The government is under fire over proposals to lift the cap on faith-based admissions in faith schools. Stephen Evans... Read More »
Never mind joining SACREs, we should be abolishing them
A parent's legal challenge to the exclusion of a humanist representative from the local body responsible for overseeing... Read More »
The PM must be held to account for her faith school obsession
Theresa May's plans to expand faith schools in Britain are ill-judged. In response, Chris Sloggett argues, it is up... Read More »
Separate is not equal – not in this ‘faith’ school
Turning a blind eye to discriminatory gender discrimination in Islamic schools would be disaster for future generations... Read More »
The greater the religious fervency, the greater the homophobia
On Pride weekend, NSS executive director Keith Porteous Wood highlights the interconnectedness between the fight for... Read More »
The Church can’t be allowed to carry on marking its own homework
The Church concealed evidence of criminality and colluded to protect an abusive bishop. Only external oversight will... Read More »
Anti-Muslim hate must be challenged. Silencing criticism of Islam won’t help
Both the Government and civil-society have a role to play in challenging anti-Muslim hate, but efforts to silence... Read More »
Abortion ruling is a missed opportunity to recognise the disparity in women’s reproductive health rights across the UK
Ensuring that NHS abortion services are made available, free of charge, to UK citizens travelling from Northern Ireland... Read More »
Was Tim Farron a secularist?
Tim Farron was a classic secularist, but found himself unable to reconcile his personal faith and his party's socially... Read More »
