Honorary Associate: Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen is an Observer columnist and author of Cruel Britannia, Pretty Straight Guys: The Strange Death Of Labour England, among others. Nick Cohen is an eloquent supporter of secularism and regularly takes a swipe at the growing number of church-run schools and the Left’s tendency to pander to religious fundamentalists.
“If the anger at the toddlers’ group I take my son to at the humiliations parents must endure for the sake of finding a half–decent school is typical, then the next wave of militant anti–clericalism in Britain will be led by soccer moms.”
“It makes as much sense (or as much nonsense) to have a law preventing offensive attacks on Blairism or romanticism or Europeanism as Judaism and Hinduism and Satanism. Unless, that is, you somehow imagine that religious beliefs — all of them and all at the same time — are truer than the ideas of mortal men.”
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Guardian, 21 August 2008
Yorkshire Post, 21 August 2008
Telegraph, 21 August 2008
The fact that this case was won while another case – that of 16- year old Lydia Playfoot and her claim in 2007 to want to wear a “chastity ring” in school – was thrown out of court seems in itself to be discriminatory.
Government transitional safeguards to protect the jobs and promotion prospects of head teachers and teachers already in post in Voluntary Controlled faith schools breach natural justice and are discriminatory, says the National Secular Society.