The One Law for All campaign was launched at the House of Lords on International Human Rights Day, 10 December, 2008. It draws attention to the problems of Sharia.

The One Law for All campaign, which is seeking legislation to curb the influence of Sharia law in Britain, will be launched at the House of Lords on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2008.

The police must act against a Christian group using intimidation and bullying against bookshops and artists to attempt censorship of what it considers ‘blasphemous’ art, says the National Secular Society.

Secularists are calling on the Education Secretary, Ed Balls, to crack down hard on the teaching of creationism in schools. The call comes in the light of a new survey from Teachers TV showing that 30% of teachers support the idea of creationism being given equivalent status to evolution.

The NSS will deliver a speech at an education seminar in the European Parliament in Brussels today to underline the danger for cohesion of minority faith schools.

NSS spokesman Alistair McBay has commented on the resignation of the Reverend Professor Michael Reiss from the role of Director of Education at the Royal Society.

The National Secular Society has given a cautious welcome to the news that the Church of England has issued an apology to Charles Darwin for giving his theory of evolution such a rough ride when it was first published.

The National Secular Society has condemned the speech made at the British Association Festival of Science by Reverend Professor Michael Reiss on 11 September, to the effect that the bogus science of creationism and Intelligent Design (creationism in a lab coat) should be debated in science classes alongside legitimate science.

Fundamentalist Christians are trying to reintroduce the blasphemy law by stealth, says the National Secular Society.

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.