DUP and Sinn Féin's resistance to integrated schools betrays their fear of meaningful unity between Catholics and Protestants, says.

Labour peer Harriet Harman has tabled an amendment to the Hereditary Peers Bill which would remove the 26 seats automatically ...

Mandatory religious observance in schools is incompatible with UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, NSS tells Scottish ...

Calls come as ex-doctor sentenced to 5 years in prison for child cruelty and actual bodily harm related to ritual ...

NSS says committee must ensure schools bill does not become "a vehicle for greater religious discrimination and segregation" ...

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A survey this month by property website Zoopla, reported in The Times today, found 28% of parents were "lying, bending rules or playing the system" to secure a place at a state school. Out of those, ...

A fresh bid has been made to remove automatic seats for bishops in the House of Lords through the hereditary peers bill.

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