secularism

On the Ashers Bakery judgment

20 May 2015 Stephen Kneale

The Ashers Bakery judgment has been published and the bakers are found to have broken equality legislation. The full judgment is worth reading and can

"Christian" assemblies and cake

10 July 2014 Stephen Kneale

This week has seen a furore over a couple of, dare I say, non-issues. In the first, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev’d John

The loathsome introduction of judicially enforced eugenics

12 June 2014 Stephen Kneale

Here is a most troubling story. Lord Justice Munby – Head of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales –

Gay Marriage (again)

20 March 2014 Stephen Kneale

It was reported in Tuesday’s Telegraph that UKIP would “strip Christian weddings of their legal status”. Similarly, ten days earlier, Simon Hughes – Liberal Democrat justice

Polly Toynbee and what’s bad for politics

14 December 2012 Stephen Kneale

Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist and outgoing president of the British Humanist Association (BHA), writes in today’s Guardian that ‘Atheists are better for politics than believers’. Whilst I would

Whither freedom of expression in public life?

14 February 2012 Stephen Kneale

In a story published by the Guardian, Lady Warsi has attacked what she describes as ‘militant secularisation’ which ‘demonstrates similar traits to totalitarian regimes – denying