Diverse humanist views on death and dying. Four Humanists UK patrons have recently resigned. The Liverpool Convention was a great success.

The Humanist UK 2023 Annual Convention in Liverpool had a positive vibe following the increase in the non-religious in the 2021 UK Census.

World Humanist Day is always on the 21st of June – the longest day of the year. How did you celebrate it?

The annual Humanist Convention is a brilliant fest of ideas coupled with great networking among humanists.

Our writer Aaron sets out here why the Liverpool Convention was not for him.

Humanistically Speaking will be at the World Humanist Congress in Copenhagen in August. We hope to see you there! We are currently...

Lisa, from the Freethinkers in Switzerland writes that despite the increase in the non religious this is not reflected in their politics.

Cath argues that Humanists UK should provide guidance to humanists about how to react to the climate crises.

The terminally-ill have a right to an assisted death based on the principle of autonomy.

An intensively reared chicken

David thinks that humanists need to have more open dialogue about the current gender controversy given the recent resignations of patrons.

It is a brutal truth that all living creatures have their lives taken away from them by illness, violence or accident.

Killing zombies and waging battles against many different life-forms is a feature of many scifi film genres. Do zombies not have rights too?

India has a long history of meat-eating despite the recent violence from so-called 'cow vigilantes'.

Those responsible for allocating intensive care resources are inevitably faced with hard choices.

By Aaron, our design and layout editor In this article, Aaron attempts to understand the human motivation to kill, and alternatives to...

Observations suggest that nonhuman animals have the capacity for grief and that they experience profound feelings of loss.

A rule of thumb is that a new species lasts on the Earth for about one million years.. Keith doubts that we will reach that target.

Penny asks - Does hunting & killing animals lead to a blunting of empathy and lead to violent behaviour by serial offenders?

Killing is rarely justified except in self-defence or when it is necessary to kill in order to save some innocent person’s life.