Let’s not go the way of the US!
Last week in The Sunday Times, the interviewer of Leader of the Opposition made the strange claim that, if elected,…
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In praise of tolerance
It was when I was serving as a director of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales that I…
This House Believes We Are All Religious
I debated last night at the Oxford Union against the motion that ‘We Are All Religious’. Here is what I…
What can Charles Darwin teach us about the coronavirus pandemic?
This article was published in the Big Issue on 12 February 2021. February 12 is the birthday of Charles Darwin,…
A history of LGBT Humanists UK
As far back as you can look, you can see that humanists have not just been LGBT-friendly, but champions of…
What happened to humanists during the Third Reich?
Today on Holocaust Memorial Day we remember victims of the genocidal Nazi regime and of the many similar acts of…
The return of American secularism?
Last week, I was tweeting like many people about the US election (specifically what a relief it is to have…
We must never blame victims
This morning, three civilians were murdered in France – stabbed to death and beheaded – by an Islamic extremist. It…