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Using House of Commons speeches on welfare from the late 1980s to 2015, Tom O'Grady finds that declining support for the benefits system was a top-down

The majority of Church of England Christians don't read the Bible, the church's own polling has revealed.

Numbers of Catholics stable as more than half of British public now have 'no religion', new survey reveals

The number of Britons who say they have no religion has hit a record high, new data has revealed. More than half of the British public (53 per cent) say they are not at all religious – a figure that has increased by five percentage points since 2015 and by 19 percentage points since 1983, when just three in 10 people deemed themselves non-religious. The news has prompted fresh calls for the Government to cut the amount of public money going to the church and reduce its influence in society.

The proportion is highest among those aged between 18 and 25, a survey suggests.

Findings of British Social Attitudes Survey coincide with years of lobbying and government U-turn on Heathrow expansion

Public opinion is now increasingly at odds with the realities of the law.

A basic lack of fairness holds us all back.

It is officially 50 years since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act was passed, and people across the UK have been celebrating the bill’s groundbreaking impact on British society.

The author of a government review into work says a modern economy should be fair and decent.

The 34th annual British Social Attitudes Survey has shown that non-religious people represent a clear majority of British people in 2017, accounting for 53% of the population. This is a new high for the non-religious population, which was previously estimated at 51% in 2014. The result is consistent with other recent polls which ask the questions 'Do you consider yourself to have a religion?' and 'If so, which one?', which will typically find that non‑religious Britons represent roughly half the population. The strength of the British Social Attitudes Survey's result, in particular, is that it has asked the same question

50 children a week are being referred to the UK's main gender identity clinic, yet only around 25 per cent of young children with gender dysphoria go on to be trans adults. FactCheck looks at the figures.

Survey says 26% of Britons are at least a little prejudiced – but age, class, education and income give no clues to attitude

Logic, science and critical thinking are working miracles for non-believers.

At first sight the figures look bad for religion.

British Social Attitudes survey shows generation gap on religious affiliation is widening with only 3% of adults under 24 describing themselves as Anglican

The word ‘millennial’ has become synonymous with a generation seen as lazy, entitled and with a poor work-ethic.

It's 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexual sex in England and Wales. How did the law change society?

Politicians must face up to the costs of public sector pay rises, reversing welfare cuts and boosting governance, says Resolution Foundation