The Academies Bill has finished its rapid passage through the Lords and has moved to the House of Commons. Crucial secularist amendments were given short shrift.

The papers have now been lodged at the High Court for the “Judicial Review between the Queen, on the Application of the National Secular Society, and Bideford Town Council”. The latter have also now been served the papers.

The Protest the Pope campaign has announced its large-scale march through London on Saturday 18 September – the day that the Pope will be holding his outdoor mass in Hyde Park.

Another local authority is planning to cut discriminatory subsidised transport for pupils going to “faith schools”.

The NSS has responded to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) consultation about guidance for teaching personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in schools.

Panicking that there simply aren’t enough religiously motivated head teachers around to staff their schools, the Church of England and the Catholic Church have got together with the National College to formulate a new approach.

Terry sanderson on the perennial problem of which kind of secularism is best to aim for in British society and education system.

An Irish Senator has called for the country to adopt a secular constitution. Labour Party Senator Ivana Bacik told the AGM of Atheist Ireland last weekend that there was now an appetite for constitutional reform in Ireland now that it is no longer dominated by Catholicism.

Our comedy Communities Secretary, Wilfred – er, that is to say, Eric Pickles has been at it again, telling Christians that they are going to have a big stake in Britain, whether Britain wants them to or not.

The arguments in a new pamphlet from the Civitas think tank will be familiar to supporters of the NSS. We’ve been making them for the past ten years.