‘Making Room for God’: Review of ‘Secularism’ in the NY Review of Books
I was absolutely thrilled to find out that my book Secularism: politics, religion, and freedom was reviewed in the NYRB….
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Supreme Court Ruling Proves PM Has Moral Responsibility To Act On NI Abortion
In the past fortnight, the issue of abortion in Northern Ireland has been thrust onto the front pages. First, voters…
Government must not allow segregated faith schools in through the back door
The cap on religious selection at faith schools may not have been lifted but the war isn’t over, writes Andrew Copson;…
Welsh Government gives humanists seat at the table, now everyone should
The Welsh Government has announced that humanists must be given the right to sit on the local authority bodies responsible…
Moral education in the secular state
This article first appeared in Philosophy Now Precise definitions of what make a state secular vary but three aspects are…
Interview for Canadian Atheist: History of Humanism
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I wanted to talk about humanism: the hows and whys, the theoretical and practical, and so on….
It’s time to end education’s historic deference to religion
The support of successive governments for faith schools has encouraged religious groups to believe they have total control over children’s…
Hamza case shows Government’s dangerous lack of understanding of humanists’ beliefs and rights to protection
Yesterday my colleagues and I delivered 12,500 signatures to Downing Street urging the Government to overturn their appalling decision to…