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Mission 2025: have you done your personal well-being audit?
Are you on a bit of a mission? Did you start this January with a bit of a bump start? Does it really make any difference?
Aaron the Humanist
Jan 314 min read
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Humanist reactions to the US Election: is Donald Trump really a fascist?
By David Warden In this article, David highlights humanist reactions to the re-election of Donald Trump, including the American Humanist...
David Warden
Nov 30, 20249 min read
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Polyamory and apologies at the 83rd American Humanist Association Conference
Report by David Warden I was thrilled to be able to attend the 83rd American Humanist Association Conference over the weekend of 14 and...
David Warden
Sep 30, 20247 min read
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Reflections on the UK’s summer riots: how should we characterise the participants?
By Aaron Aaron is proudly British, and a former member of the UK Independence Party and the Conservative Party. Like millions of British...
Aaron the Humanist
Sep 30, 20245 min read
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Is mankind our worst enemy?
By Aaron the Humanist In this piece we find Aaron at his gloomiest. Some days he feels that, were he passing by in a spaceship, he...
Aaron the Humanist
Jul 31, 20243 min read
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Ideophobia: is it OK to hate people who dissent from progressive opinion?
By David Warden In this opinion piece, David identifies a form of hatred which he calls “ideophobia” and he advocates a form of thinking...
David Warden
May 31, 20246 min read
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Can humanists be conservative? A view from the right...ish side of politics
By Aaron, our Design and Layout Editor With the UK’s General Election approaching in 2024 or early 2025, Dorset Humanists recently hosted...
Aaron the Humanist
Apr 30, 202414 min read
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A thought experiment: let’s abolish cosmetic surgery
By John Hubbard John Hubbard is a retired English teacher and currently a U3A lecturer in English and Drama. High on John's list of...
John Hubbard
Feb 29, 20246 min read
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Israel-Gaza: Fence sitting is not an option
By Aaron the Humanist In this article, Aaron challenges the idea that the two sides in the Israel-Gaza War are as bad as each other and...
Aaron the Humanist
Nov 30, 20235 min read
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Cluster bombs: The case against morals in wartime
By David Brittain David is the founding editor of Humanistically Speaking. In this short opinion piece, he dives into the morals of war...
David Brittain
Jul 31, 20233 min read
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Cluster bombs: The case for morals in wartime
Aaron argues that our combatants during wartime must adhere to moral boundaries, and a victory should be achieved within those boundaries.
Aaron the Humanist
Jul 31, 20233 min read
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What I would like from a national humanist convention
Our writer Aaron sets out here why the Liverpool Convention was not for him.
Aaron the Humanist
Jun 30, 20233 min read
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Is it morally OK to kill zombies, or does this glorify death?
Killing zombies and waging battles against many different life-forms is a feature of many scifi film genres. Do zombies not have rights too?
Aaron the Humanist
Jun 30, 20235 min read
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