Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour should tell them to go to hell
Catherine Bennett
Schools should bond communities: faith schools divide them. Why are ministers making that worse?
Simon Jenkins
England to scrap 50% rule on faith school admissions
February 2024
Must faith schools just look after their own?
Letters: Alan Parker, Damian Murray and Paul Whitby respond to other readers’ views on teaching religion in schools
January 2024
Education will be poorer if religion is banned from schools
Banning prayer rituals in school? Just get religion out of education completely
Polly Toynbee
October 2023
‘Massive increase’ in suspected antisemitic offences in London
Here’s how the UK can honour those suffering in the Middle East: by being decent ourselves
Marina Hyde
England’s Jewish schools heighten security as antisemitic incidents quadruple
Catholic and C of E primary schools in England ‘take fewer Send pupils’
July 2023
Head of school linked to Amy Coney Barrett’s faith group abruptly resigns
Then a professor at Notre Dame, the supreme court justice was on a board that selected Jon Balsbaugh to head the Trinity Schools
April 2023
UK politicians stigmatising Muslims over Islamist terrorism, report finds
UK’s forced marriage unit underfunded and too Muslim-focused, report to say
December 2022
Schools call for end to ‘archaic’ daily worship following UK census results
With fewer than half the population in England and Wales describing themselves as Christian, there are calls to end religious assemblies
November 2022
Brief letters
Cleverly criticises China for arresting journalists – but what about Britain?
Brief letters: Press freedom | Dry December | Mpox | Declining Christianity | Antidisestablishmentarianism | PPE contracts
March 2022
‘Serious failures’ over sex and drugs incidents at Catholic school
Ofsted criticises £37,905-a-year Ampleforth college for inadequate safeguarding of vulnerable students
February 2022
Catholic church in legal battle over bid to force schools to become academies
Unions write to education secretary calling on him to withdraw orders issued to group of Catholic schools
January 2020
Birmingham Islamic school sues Ofsted after being failed for leaflet
Birchfield girls’ school rated inadequate after inspectors find ‘inflammatory’ circular from 1994
May 2019
Observer special report
‘We can’t give in’: the Birmingham school on the frontline of anti-LGBT protests
Protests by Muslims against teaching about gay relationships at their children’s primary came to a head last week. We meet the people caught between activists and the law
