Opinion
Election 2015: Where the parties stand on secularist issues
Find out where the parties stand on collective worship, faith schools, multiculturalism, sex and relationships education,... Read More »
Secularism in 2050: huge changes in population make a secular UK even more urgent
As huge demographic changes and the rapid increase in the Muslim population reshape religion in the UK, Benjamin Jones... Read More »
Let’s stop confusing education with religious inculcation
The blurring of the distinction between education and religious inculcation in British schools is preventing young... Read More »
Why we should stop saying ‘Islamophobia’
The bigoted views of Islamists and anti-Muslim demagogues must be challenged, but the term 'Islamophobia' only serves... Read More »
Even the chief architect of the expansion of religious schools is now having doubts
With the public, of all faiths and none, increasingly recognising the problems caused by faith schools, NSS president... Read More »
Why would a teenager want to join the Islamic State?
Gijsbert Stoet, a Reader in Psychology at the University of Glasgow, considers why so many teenagers have sought to... Read More »
Je suis Michael Overd: this obnoxious street preacher is a canary in the coal mine for free speech
An offensive street preacher has been charged for giving a "religiously aggravated" sermon, and was told by a police... Read More »
Should taxpayers be paying for the Church’s leaking roofs?
Keith Porteous Wood argues that with the Church Commissioners sitting on a £4bn surplus, the Church of England... Read More »
Why did the CPS abandon investigation into Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor?
As the full scale of the British Establishment's cover-up of child sex abuse becomes apparent, Alistair McBay argues... Read More »
Council prayers: none so deaf as those that will not hear
Those who regard the imposition of religious values and practices in secular spaces as benign should be more aware... Read More »
There is no widespread discrimination against Christians in the workplace
NSS president Terry Sanderson challenges the notion that Christians are widely discriminated against in the workplace,... Read More »
Eric Pickles' 'evangelical charter' on its way to becoming law
A small group of Christians in parliament are changing the law to give local authorities the power to summon councillors... Read More »
The Church, gratitude and the erosion of innocence
A parent writes about the problem of innocuous children's activities run with a hidden religious agenda, and defends... Read More »
The Christian Legal Centre makes another attempt to gain privileges for Christians in the workplace
The Christian Legal Centre's latest 'discrimination' claim follows a familiar pattern – but its use of dissembling... Read More »
Charlie Hebdo: a perspective one month on
25 years after the Rushdie Affair, one month after the atrocities in Paris and days after the attack on a free speech... Read More »
Is the Christian immune from plane crashes?
Alistair McBay reports on Scottish Calvinism's attack on secularism, and offers his reaction to the rhetoric and tactics... Read More »
A duty to mock
Manfredi La Manna argues that the response to the Charlie Hebdo murders has exposed unpalatable truths in both the... Read More »
Sharia law, apostasy and secularism
Gita Sahgal argues that opposing religious fundamentalism is not a distraction from 'real' politics - the demands... Read More »
The dishonesty of religious lobbying shines like a beacon
NSS President Terry Sanderson argues that the churches have changed their lobbying tactics, and are trying to impose... Read More »
The dishonesty of religious lobbying shines like a beacon
NSS President Terry Sanderson argues that the churches have changed their lobbying tactics, and are trying to impose... Read More »
BBC Panorama, “the battle for British Islam” and the nonsense of “peaceful” or “violent” Muslims
NSS communications officer Benjamin Jones argues that the problem of Islamism is obscured by politicians and others... Read More »
Rendering unto Caesar
The established Church throws stones from inside its Government-subsidised glass cathedral, argues Alistair McBay.... Read More »
Charlie Hebdo Editorial: Je Suis Charlie Means Je Suis Secularism
This is a translation of the editorial from the first Charlie Hebdo published since the Paris attacks. It is reproduced... Read More »
MPs want God at centre of local democracy
When Conservative councillor Imran Khan opted out of Christian prayers at council meetings he was subject to ostracization,... Read More »
British media fails the free speech test
The British print and media press's response to the Charlie Hebdo attack has involved victim blaming, obfuscation... Read More »
