Posted: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 by Alastair Lichten
After a father threatens the government with legal action over a requirement to teach about LGBT people in independent schools, Alastair Lichten argues the focus should remain on protecting pupils' rights. Read More »
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2019
Cross-disciplinary medical ethicist Dr Brian D. Earp will address the NSS's Secularism 2019 conference on 'reclaiming religious freedom'....
Posted: Mon, 14 Jan 2019
MPs have called for an end to the practice of holding prayers in parliament in an early day motion backed by the NSS.
Posted: Wed, 09 Jan 2019
The NSS has called on the Equality and Human Rights Commission to back a secular education system in response to a new strategic plan.
Posted: Fri, 04 Jan 2019
The NSS has urged local education authorities not to open schools which can select all their children based on their families' faith.
Posted: Fri, 04 Jan 2019
Only a third of the UK public thinks the monarchy's ties to the C of E should remain intact, according to a poll conducted for the NSS.
As MPs launch a motion against parliamentary prayers, NSS CEO Stephen Evans says ending the anachronistic custom would strike a blow for modernity, equality and freedom of conscience.
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2019
Moves to introduce humanist chaplaincy services in some NHS hospitals paper over the cracks in a discriminatory service, Dr Antony Lempert argues.
Posted: Fri, 11 Jan 2019
One of the pope's Christmas messages urged clerical abusers to hand themselves in. Keith Porteous Wood asks how effective it will be in bringing perpetrators to the courts and assesses the pope's progress...
Posted: Mon, 07 Jan 2019
After a father threatens the government with legal action over a requirement to teach about LGBT people in independent schools, Alastair Lichten argues the focus should remain on protecting pupils' rights....
Posted: Mon, 07 Jan 2019
In her book Identity, Islam and the Twilight of Liberal Values, Terri Murray explores attacks on liberalism from the left and right – and the failure to defend it. Here she explains what motivated...
Posted: Mon, 17 Dec 2018