Posted: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 by Nigel Sewell
A seasonal message from Bristol Secular Society
This time of year has many names: Winter Solstice, Christmas, Yule, Hanukkah, Saturnalia, etc. Some of these are ancient, others more recent. In particular many belief systems have a special event or holiday centered... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 24 Nov 2020
The NSS has welcomed the Scottish government's decision to strengthen a clause on free speech on religion in its current hate crime bill....
Posted: Mon, 23 Nov 2020
The NSS has said temporary changes to many faith schools' admissions policies should prompt lasting change to make schools more inclusive....
Posted: Fri, 20 Nov 2020
The NSS has raised the alarm over an independent faith school which claims to teach creationism as science.
Posted: Thu, 19 Nov 2020
Leading human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson has called for the C of E's disestablishment in the NSS's 2020 Bradlaugh Lecture.
Posted: Wed, 18 Nov 2020
The NSS has urged the government to take up the case of an Iranian activist who faces a long jail term for protesting against mandatory veiling....
As the High Court considers whether to let a girl from a Jehovah's Witness community refuse blood transfusions, Dr Antony Lempert says the precedent of overriding a child's refusal of lifesaving treatment...
Posted: Thu, 26 Nov 2020
A ruling on abortion in Poland has again highlighted the government's damagingly close relationship with the Catholic Church. But many Poles are now questioning the church's power, says Aleksandra Myslek....
Posted: Thu, 12 Nov 2020
The church was given a key role on the board of our local multi-academy trust – even though there were no faith schools in it. Chris Leng questions the assumptions which lay behind this arrangement....
Posted: Mon, 09 Nov 2020
Liberal equivocation on whether to stand up to jihadist murder and Islamist intimidation is morally wrong, misguided and counter-productive, says Chris Sloggett.
Posted: Wed, 04 Nov 2020
Ahead of the NSS's 2020 Bradlaugh Lecture on the subject, Stephen Evans says the disestablishment of the Church of England is right in principle and could benefit church and state alike.
Posted: Tue, 03 Nov 2020