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Posted: Fri, 20 Sep 2019
NSS to hold training day on Exploring Secularism education project
The NSS has announced a training day on its project which provides free educational resources to secondary school students and teachers.
Posted: Thu, 19 Sep 2019
NSS challenges government backtracking on non-stun meat labelling
The NSS has urged the government to reconsider an apparent backtrack on requiring meat from unstunned animals to be labelled.
Posted: Wed, 18 Sep 2019
NSS urges UN to pressurise Vatican on overdue child rights reports
The NSS has urged a UN council to pressurise the Vatican to submit long-overdue reports outlining its response to child sexual abuse.
Posted: Fri, 13 Sep 2019
NSS urges advertising regulators not to defer to religion
The NSS has urged two advertising regulation bodies to protect free expression on religion as they reconsider their rules on offence.
Posted: Thu, 12 Sep 2019
NSS rallies opposition to new selective Catholic school
The NSS is resisting plans to open a religiously selective Catholic school in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire.
Opinion
The chief rabbi has asked secularists to stop campaigning against practices such as faith schools and infant circumcision. His apparently polite request should be firmly rejected, says Chris Sloggett.
The chief rabbi has made an anti-democratic attempt to shut down criticism
Posted: Wed, 18 Sep 2019
A pharmacist has been convicted for having a baby boy circumcised against his parents' wishes. Megan Manson says the case raises alarming questions over our willingness to defend children's bodily integrity consistently....
A woman is convicted over circumcision. What happens next?
Posted: Fri, 06 Sep 2019
The proposed date for a general election has moved to accommodate a Jewish festival. Chris Sloggett asks whether the government has weighed up all competing considerations before reaching this decision.
Beware moving election dates for religious reasons
Posted: Wed, 04 Sep 2019
An NSS report has called for an end to religious appointees on council education committees in Scotland. Neil Barber says it's long past time for these positions to go.
Religious reps’ influence over education is an affront to democracy
Posted: Tue, 27 Aug 2019
The disqualification of a GCSE student who criticised halal meat is a reminder of the need to resist censorious offence-taking on Islam and the normalisation of the idea of 'Islamophobia', says Stephen Evans.
Islam, like any other religion, must be fair game for criticism
Posted: Thu, 22 Aug 2019