Originally published on the National Secular Society website on 25 March 2026 and republished here with permission.

Britain today is both more religiously diverse and nonr...

Francesco Zanardi was 11 years old when a Catholic priest in northern Italy started sexually abusing him, an ordeal which lasted for more than five years. As an adult, Zanardi founded Rete L’Abuso, a network exposing clerical abuse and demanding accountability from the Church. But despite h...

While the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict did not begin on 7 October 2023, that date certainly marked the beginning of the realignment of forces in the Middle East (or West Asia, to use a less Eurocentric name), although none of us could have predicted the depth and breadth of it. Led by the most virulently right-wing government in Israel, cheered on by the maverick ...

The shootings of Renée Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in January are two of the latest tragic incidents of the reign of ...