Opinion
The Christmas nativity: Let it go! Let it go!
After it this week emerged that some school nativity plays are losing their religion, Stephen Evans argues that schools... Read More »
Tower Hamlets and the Dangers of Communal Politics
Last week, the accountancy firm PwC, in its audit of Tower Hamlets Council and its Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, catalogued... Read More »
Mission creep in the anti-war left
Video has emerged of the Left Unity political party voting on whether to endorse the Islamic State. Although the amendment... Read More »
Parent's perspective: The Collective Worship dilemma
One parent speaks out about the damaging impact of excluding her young child from mandatory collective worship in... Read More »
Who are the true Muslims – all or none?
Moderate believers argue that Isis has misinterpreted the Koran. But no one can determine who is right or wrong, argues... Read More »
Operation Christmas Child
Every year the National Secular Society is contacted by parents upset to discover that a festive charitable project... Read More »
Assisted Dying: It is now a case of ‘when’, rather than ‘if’
On Friday 7 November the Assisted Dying Bill was debated in the House of Lords. The executive director of the National... Read More »
Remembrance Sunday should not be dominated by religion
Historian, broadcaster and NSS honorary associate Dan Snow on the need for an inclusive and secular remembrance ceremony... Read More »
Transport to faith schools: Local authorities shouldn't be subsidising religious segregation
A "hideous form of discrimination" or the justifiable removal of a religious privilege? NSS campaigns manager Stephen... Read More »
The rise of political Islam in Turkey: how the West got it wrong
Political Islamism has undermined the Turkish Republic's secular social order, education and legal systems and Western... Read More »
New data revealed on 2015 voting intentions of non-believers
The British Election Study has shed new light on the voting intentions of non-believers, and highlighted the power... Read More »
Free Church of Scotland attacks secularism and “sexual equality”; calls for Biblical principles in Scottish Government
The Free Church of Scotland has labelled secularism "harmful to society" and called for the new Scottish constitutional... Read More »
‘Shariafication by stealth’ in the UK
The state's adoption of 'faith based' approaches to address minority issues are increasingly marginalising women from... Read More »
Secular conference created a sense of imminent and momentous change – and women will be the driving force
The passion of feminist secular activists from around the world at a recent conference has inspired Terry Sanderson,... Read More »
The Bishops, the Catholic vote and the Referendum
Alistair McBay argues that a growing political alliance between the leadership of the Catholic Church in Scotland... Read More »
Conquering fear with hope: Secularism 2014
Ahead of this weekend's conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights, Gita Sahgal highlights the... Read More »
Apostasy and blasphemy laws: an affront to human rights
Iran's execution of Mohsen Amir-Aslani on apostasy charges illustrates the injustices caused by such laws in the Middle... Read More »
Secularism and religious intolerance - an Ex-Muslim perspective on Karen Armstrong's essay
In an essay written to coincide with the publication of her new book, Karen Armstrong diagnoses the secular impulse... Read More »
Sixth formers: You have the right to withdraw!
Sixth form pupils can excuse themselves from acts of worship – but it appears some schools aren't so keen on... Read More »
Education, not the veil, must come first in schools
Maajid Nawaz argues that a London girls' school is right to ban the Niqab on educational grounds.
British Muslims are... Read More »
A contested subject: religious education and faith schools
Reports of a Cabinet row over plans to require faith schools to teach more than one religion at GCSE level show that... Read More »
Teachers shouldn’t be the victims of religious discrimination
The degree to which we tolerate discrimination against teachers in state-funded faith schools would be totally unacceptable... Read More »
Rowan Williams and his ilk are not the people to decide where religion sits in public life
The Woolf Institute has convened a commission to consider the place and role of religion and belief in contemporary... Read More »
25 years: women working against fundamentalism in the UK
An interview with Nira Yuval-Davis and Sukhwant Dhaliwal, co-editors of the new book telling the story of Women Against... Read More »
Religion “mustn't cause violence”
Both media commentators and politicians seem keen to claim religion as a cause for good deeds but determined not to... Read More »
