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Posted: Fri, 15 Jan 2021
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Posted: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
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Posted: Fri, 08 Jan 2021
Law Commission proposals risk chilling free speech, NSS warns
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Posted: Wed, 06 Jan 2021
Drop charges against ex-Muslim campaigner in Tanzania, says NSS
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Posted: Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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Posted: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
NSS chief executive Stephen Evans was interviewed in a recent edition of Charlie Hebdo which marked six years since the attack on its staff. The interview is reproduced here in English.
"Being offended is the price we pay for living in a free society": NSS CEO talks to Charlie Hebdo
Posted: Thu, 14 Jan 2021
With the country again plunged into a strict lockdown, Stephen Evans questions the rationale behind and wisdom of an exemption for religious worship in England.
The lockdown exemption for communal worship represents a dangerous double standard
Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 2021
Opponents often erect a straw man of secularism to justify demands for religious privilege. But freedom of religion must come with freedom from religion, says Stephen Evans.
All I want for Christmas is freedom of and from religion
Posted: Fri, 18 Dec 2020