Alazawi inflicted agony by excising functional, erogenous tissue from healthy children for cash. Most religious perpetrators continue unimpeded; a society still in thrall to religious sensitivities.

www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2025...

Children must be safeguarded from this violent practice.

Every pound spent on pursuing super-rich tax avoiders returns £14. Instead the government decide to go after disabled people and the most vulnerable.

Time for Labour to make different political choices and ensure the super-rich are paying their fair share.

Dear Keir - following #PMQs today, a reminder of the letter we you sent last week after you repeated false claims about the Green Party's manifesto. Unlike Labour and the Conservatives we were honest about the need to raise taxes on the wealthiest to fund the services we all need.

My @natsecsoc.bsky.social blog discusses the absurd anomaly of ritual child genital cutting. www.secularism.org.uk/opinion/2025...
Two convicted men this year is a positive small step towards protecting children from unjustifiable, unrestrained religious privilege.

🚨Laws on genital mutilation, gender affirmation, cosmetic surgery, intersex surgery & circumcision conflict. 1 principle should govern all: developmentally appropriate bodily sovereignty qualified by urgent medical necessity.

blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2022/09/prot...

The recent conviction of a former doctor for child cruelty after performing an unanaesthetised ritual circumcision should bring this religious practice under scrutiny. @natsecsoc.bsky.social quoted in today’s Sunday Times on the need for better protections for boys.
www.thetimes.com/article/446b...

“Surgeries are inherently dangerous and should only be performed on children where there is medical necessity.” Our human rights lead Dr Alejandro Sanchez on ritual #circumcision in @thetimes.com
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Bid to end bishops’ right to seats in the House of Lords backed by Baroness Harriet Harman, Lib Dem peer Paul Scriven and the former BBC Director-General Lord Birt. The privileging of bishops is a hangover from a different age. It's time it was addressed.

www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/01...

The charity regulator has published damning findings into an Islamic charity whose trustee was convicted on encouraging terrorism. We think this is the tip of the iceberg; too many charities are promoting extremism under ‘the advancement of religion’.
www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/01...

NEW: We’ve urged a parliamentary committee to ensure the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill does not lead to a new wave of highly selective faith schools. New schools must be equally welcoming of all children. www.secularism.org.uk/news/2025/01...

How was it that a doctor who was struck off for 2015 for "callous and completely unacceptable" practice related to ritual #circumcision was allowed to keep circumcising boys?

Our human rights lead Dr Alejandro Sanchez in the @bmj.com 👇 www.bmj.com/content/388/...