MOST people in Britain want Church of England bishops slung out of the House of Lords. A Yougov poll for the Sunday Times asked: Currently, 26 senior Church of England bishops are entitled to sit in the House of Lords and vote on laws. Do you think bishops should or should not be entitled to [...]
ON the same day that a British barrister was reported as saying that sharia was “compatible with human rights”, and was good for the “community as a whole”, a Muslim fanatic forced the cancellation of a discussion of Islamic law at a London university on Monday. Jennifer Hardy, President of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism [...]
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TREVOR Phillips, Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, exposed breathtaking ignorance on Sunday by alleging that the NSS was using the High Court in London to PROSECUTE a West Country council over prayers said in the council chamber. Under the headline Human rights should help us protect the vulnerable (behind paywall) Phillips wrote: [...]
PRAYERS uttered at local authority council meetings in England could soon be a thing of the past if the National Secular Society wins a High Court case that began in London yesterday. Despite the fact that virtually no-one in the UK with an ounce of commonsense believes in the efficacy of prayer, around half of [...]
THE law that obliges schools to hold daily acts of worship in England ought to be scrapped. Teachers and pressure groups, according to the Guardian yesterday, are urging Education Secretary Michael Gove to ditch the law, which, they argue, infringes children’s human rights and discriminates against pupils of no faith and non-Christians. The National Secular [...]
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THE Pope’s controversial visit to Britain next month is being threatened by low giving from Catholic parishes and rows over ethics and public money. According to this report, the cost of the planned state visit events has risen from £12 million to £20 million over the past two months, and there is a £3 million [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
