Extremism

*Comment & Analysis

A liberal approach to extremism is taking shape – but will the govt let it survive?

*Blog

Islamic State: A group with no political agenda or demands suitable for negotiation

Labour leadership fight reaches new low as Corbyn and Smith say they’d negotiate with Isis

*Blogs

Prevent is creating a culture of "suspicion in the classroom"

Prevent anti-extremism strategy creating ‘suspicion in the classroom’

*Blog

Farage's speech after the Paris bombing pinned the blame for the attacks on 'multiculturalism' and 'mass immigration'

Farage’s Paris speech shows he doesn’t understand France or Islam or refugees

*Blog

French troops patrol around the Eifel Tower on January 12, 2015

Opportunism on left and right make us accomplices in Isis’ terror

*Blog

Security services will be awarded more surveillance powers

Comment: The Investigatory Powers Bill will do nothing to tackle violent extremism

*Blog

More argument, fewer details: When will the government reveal it's counter-extremism proposals?

When will the government tell us what kind of free speech it’s going to ban?

Once again the prime minister uses a speech on extremism and Islamic terrorism to promises a free speech crack-down without telling us what kinds of free speech he’s going to crack down on

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Growing marriage backlog points to need for humanist marriage recognition

More and more couples having humanist weddings in England and Wales are expressing their frustration at the growing waiting times before they can also have a civil marriage and so be married in the eyes of the law. The backlogs in many parts of the country are a result of the coronavirus pandemic and the… Read more »

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Government provides specifically for humanist weddings in latest coronavirus regulations

Non-religious in NI jump from to 27% in latest Life and Times Survey – up from 20% last year, 12% in 2009

The share of adults in Northern Ireland with no religion is surging, according to the latest data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. The results of the 2020 survey have just been published. 27% of respondents said they had no religion – an increase of 7% on 2019. This latest surge means that the overall… Read more »