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Posted: Tue, 24 Nov 2020
Success: free speech clause in hate crime bill to be strengthened
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
Temporary changes should prompt fairer school admissions, says NSS
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
Don’t let schools push creationism as science, NSS tells government
The NSS has raised the alarm over an independent faith school which claims to teach creationism as science.
Posted: Thu, 19 Nov 2020
Geoffrey Robertson calls for CoE’s disestablishment in NSS lecture
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
NSS urges Foreign Office to take up case of anti-veiling protester
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....
Related Opinion
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...
The state mustn’t allow children to die for their stated religious beliefs
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....
The Catholic Church’s control over abortion policy has sparked a furious backlash in Poland
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....
Why was the Church of England allowed to influence the direction of our local secular schools?
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.
The onus should be on theocrats, not liberal democracies, to change
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.
Church and state should be separate
Posted: Tue, 03 Nov 2020