What I Believe interview with Camden New Journal
It was a pleasure to do a long interview with Camden New Journal, covering the launch of my new book…
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Success for assisted dying bill
I’m so happy with Friday’s result which saw MPs vote in favour of assisted dying. It’s a historic first step…
The UK needs stronger free speech protections, not a new blasphemy law
A question from an MP asking the Prime Minister if he would support the reintroduction of a form of blasphemy…
Protecting freedom of religion or belief against the religious right | Andrew Copson
Around the world, the religious right (of all religions) is organising with renewed enthusiasm and doubling down on its efforts to erode…
Success! Longstanding Humanists UK policies in new education legislation
At the outset, we were a lone voice, raising the alarm about the thousands of children trapped in illegal faith…
UK one of the least religious national parliaments in the world
Keir Starmer is not the first non-religious Prime Minister. Ramsay Macdonald, Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee,…
LBC: the case for assisted dying as an affirmation of life’s most profound values
I wrote an opinion piece for LBC this week on the values of assisted dying. Doing various media on assisted…
Unstable times in Europe: a speech at the EU Commission
In these unstable and uncharted times, Europeans and the EU (as an institution embodying European values), finds itself at a…