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Editor's welcome
David Warden Editor This month, our talented team of writers has tackled a number of related themes including monarchy, republicanism,...
David Warden
Apr 30, 20232 min read
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Mubarak Bala - how you can help
It's now over a year since Mubarak Bala – President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria – was sentenced to 24 years in prison, in...
David Warden
Apr 30, 20231 min read
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Who's watching the Coronation then? A delicious recipe to try...
Contrasting viewpoints by Aaron and David, and a delicious recipe courtesy of ChatGPT Aaron's view A YouGov survey recently asked 'How...
News
Apr 30, 20232 min read
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Is prison always the right punishment?
A man who was 17 at the time he raped a 13-year-old girl in Scotland has been sentenced to 270 hours of community service. Our editorial...
News
Apr 30, 20232 min read
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Humanist first aid in the community!
This week in Poole, two members of Dorset Humanists who trained as group first aiders during the COVID-19 pandemic were able to put their...
News
Apr 30, 20232 min read
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The Coronation isn’t for us. It’s for the Church.
By Megan Manson Megan is head of campaigns at the National Secular Society in London. She previously worked for the Japanese government...
Megan Manson
Apr 30, 20235 min read
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Tradition and heritage matter - a lot
Our heritage and traditions belong to all of us and are not sacrosanct but evolve continually through adaptation and appropriation.
Anthony Lewis
Apr 30, 20236 min read
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Africa and the Commonwealth: A case of double standards
By Lynda Tilley Lynda is a humanist based in South Africa. She is a founding member of United African Humanists and a Board Advisor for...
Lynda Tilley
Apr 30, 20236 min read
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What is Democratic Confederalism?
By Mohit Palagiri Mohit dedicates this article to a friend at the University of Leeds who is working for a Democratic and Free Iran and...
Mohit Palagiri
Apr 30, 20237 min read
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Humanists in Profile - E. O. Wilson
By John Coss, Vice Chair of Stockport Humanists Continuing our series of profiles of humanists who are not as widely known as they should...
John Coss
Apr 30, 20236 min read
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British monarchs: the good, the bad and the incompetent
The British monarchy is still very popular and many people are looking forward to the forthcoming coronation of Charles III. In this article
Maggie Hall
Apr 30, 20237 min read
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Am I a republican or a royalist?
In this article, Aaron, a badge-wearing humanist, wrestles with the dilemma of whether to marry republicanism to his humanist ideals, or...
Aaron the Humanist
Apr 30, 20235 min read
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Time to disestablish the Church of England
By Guy Otten Guy is a vice-chair of Greater Manchester Humanists, a Humanist Chaplain with the Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust, a...
Guy Otten
Apr 30, 20239 min read
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A humanist defence of monarchy and an established church
By David Warden David is Chairman of Dorset Humanists I'm going to upset everyone by attempting the impossible: a humanist defence of the...
David Warden
Apr 30, 20235 min read
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Switzerland rapidly becoming more secular, but religion still gets privileges
By Andreas Kyriacou Andreas is President of the Freethinkers Association of Switzerland Humanistically Speaking founding editor David...
Andreas Kyriacou
Apr 30, 20236 min read
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Uruguay: an amazingly secular state
By Camilla Landbø Camilla took her first journalistic steps as a freelancer for Swiss daily newspapers Burgdorfer Tagblatt and Berner...
Camilla Landbo
Apr 30, 20236 min read
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Were New Zealand Humanists right to ask for a ban on Posie Parker?
By David Warden and Dr Anthony Lewis In this article, David and Anthony review what led up to the incident in Auckland, New Zealand, when...
David Warden
Apr 30, 20239 min read
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Unexpected obligations which may arise in the moral life of a humanist
By Paul Ewans Paul is a member of Humanists UK and Humanists International. In this article he considers the ethical implications of...
Paul Ewans
Apr 30, 20232 min read
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Royals as celebrities
By Dr Penny Morgan Penny is a retired zoologist. She now writes thrillers with an animal welfare theme, living in hope that these will...
Penny Morgan
Apr 30, 20234 min read
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Colonialism - A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
Biggar's overall conclusion is that the British Empire like all imperial ventures in history was ‘morally complicated and ambiguous.
Anthony Lewis
Apr 30, 20234 min read
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