Posted: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 by Bob Forder
The film Peterloo is a reminder of the close links between the campaign for church-state separation and the push for a truly democratic society in the 19th century and beyond, writes Bob Forder.
Mike Leigh's keenly anticipated, ambitious and long film, Peterloo... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 23 Jan 2020
The NSS has urged Peterborough City Council not to approve plans to open a new religiously selective Catholic state school in the city.
Posted: Tue, 21 Jan 2020
The Welsh government plans to remove parents' right to withdraw children from lessons on religion and to rename religious education.
Posted: Mon, 20 Jan 2020
An Orthodox Jewish school stocked texts which said women are "guards" to their families' wellbeing, inspectors have said.
Posted: Fri, 17 Jan 2020
A new discriminatory Catholic primary school is expected to open in Peterborough after education officials recommended its approval.
Posted: Thu, 16 Jan 2020
The NSS has urged the Council of Europe not to adopt a motion which would privilege religious demands from employees in the workplace.
A private member's bill to replace compulsory worship with inclusive assemblies should prompt the government to reform the archaic collective worship law, says Stephen Evans.
Posted: Wed, 22 Jan 2020
Keith Porteous Wood says the shocking failings highlighted by the BBC documentary The Church's Darkest Secret show the need to separate church and state.
Posted: Fri, 17 Jan 2020
Half a decade after the Islamist attack on cartoonists in France, Chris Sloggett says we owe it to the victims and those left behind to reject blasphemy taboos.
Posted: Tue, 07 Jan 2020
Sex education empowers young people. The government must stand up to those making faux religious freedom arguments in an attempt to stop them receiving it, argues Stephen Evans.
Posted: Fri, 03 Jan 2020
Three-quarters of a century ago an enduring piece of legislation secured free education for all – but gave churches substantial control over schools in return. Keith Sharpe says this settlement needs...
Posted: Wed, 18 Dec 2019