Author: Terry Sanderson
Letters to editors: a useful tool for campaigners
When you're active in campaigns that aim to change things in society, it can often be difficult to get your voice... Read More »
Chaos in the workplace will follow if this case succeeds
If an employer can reasonably accommodate religious requests without disrupting their business or disadvantaging their... Read More »
Research or propaganda? How the apologists for faith schools are fighting back
Faith schools have been getting a bit of a bad press lately. Despite the fact that successive Governments have encouraged... Read More »
Why is the state funding the indoctrination of children in schools with dangerous ideologies?
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, made a statement last week about the Nairobi shopping mall massacre which almost... Read More »
We are all at the mercy of the activists who are driving these veil confrontations
There were calls this week for "a debate on the face veil" after a court and a college were confronted by women who... Read More »
Can we please stop wasting money on these endless surveys that just tell us what we already know?
Professor Paul Weller of Derby University seems to have cornered the market in research into perceived discrimination... Read More »
On homophobia and racism
Two weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury was in Monterrey, Mexico where he delivered a sermon to the effect that... Read More »
It may be a new velvet glove, but it’s the same old iron fist at the Vatican
You've got to give the Vatican credit for having installed a Pope who appears to be nice and cuddly and says all the... Read More »
Muslims must be protected. Islam must not.
The Muslim Council of Britain has called for a "serious national response" from the government to attacks against... Read More »
How do we keep religious education out of the hands of the evangelists?
How can schools tell children about religion in a way that is fair, objective, unbiased and, most important, doesn't... Read More »
Human rights are for humans, not for ideologies
A Jewish man has won an employment tribunal case for racial and religious discrimination after his employer made derogatory... Read More »
Public perceptions and reality - have we got it wrong?
An Ipsos-Mori poll for the Royal Statistical Society tried to measure what people's perception of issues were as opposed... Read More »
Three cheers for Channel 4 for trying to move Muslims into the mainstream
Channel 4 has set the cat among the pigeons — as I suspect it intended to do — with its announcement that... Read More »
New EU guidelines on religion and belief make plain that no religion is entitled to special rights
The EU Foreign Affairs Council this week adopted a report with 71 Guidelines to promote the right to freedom of religion... Read More »
The issue of disestablishment won’t go away
The influential international business magazine The Economist carried an editorial last week calling for the Church... Read More »
Reaction to Woking parking challenge reveals national implications
By Terry Sanderson
There has been some interesting reaction to our challenge to Woking Borough Council's policy of... Read More »
The Same-Sex Marriage Bill delivers a blow to the bishops in the House of Lords
So, the prospect of gay marriage took a mighty leap forward in the House of Lords this week as the intended "wrecking... Read More »
Questions raised about the running of the BBC’s religious affairs department
The latest Private Eye carries the following piece:
These are trying times for Aaqil Ahmed, head of religion and ethics... Read More »
Britain’s feeble religious right learns no lessons from its debacle at the European Court
We sincerely hope that the rejection by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights of the supposed "religious... Read More »
Catholic magazine says Same Sex Marriage Bill will disestablish the Church of England
The Catholic weekly magazine The Tablet carried an editorial in its 25 May edition predicting that the legalisation... Read More »
Same-sex marriage – is Cameron’s commitment wobbling?
When the issue of same-sex marriage began to arise around the world, the Catholic Church foolishly decided that it... Read More »
It’s the Church’s Christian duty to support the health service, not leech off it
The Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, says that hospital chaplaincy services "ought never to be... Read More »
Bishops in the House of Lords – too political or not political enough?
By Terry Sanderson
The Labour MP Frank Field (right) has called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to hand over some of... Read More »
Not content with a third of state-sponsored schools pushing his faith, now Dr Welby wants the BBC to do more evangelising
The Church of England takes it for granted that it is the taxpayers' job to fund its evangelising. We contribute hundreds... Read More »
At last – churches recognise The Big Society for the Big Con that it was
By Terry Sanderson
It seems The Big Society is back – if only for the last nail to be driven into its coffin.... Read More »
