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Practical Progressives: policies from a humanist think tank
By Simon Bowden, Paul Entwistle, and John Kingston Simon, Paul, and John are members of Dorset Humanists' Practical Progressives group...

Simon Bowden
Apr 30, 202414 min read


Why I’m a left of centre humanist
By Paul Entwistle Paul’s background is in finance. He has a longstanding interest in philosophy and political economy which he has been...
Paul Entwistle
Apr 30, 20247 min read


Post-democracy: How democracy was captured and how we can get it back
By David Warden In this article, David traces some of the history of liberalism and its recent decay into authoritarian Marxism. He calls...

David Warden
Apr 30, 202414 min read


Abiogenesis: the creation of life from non-living matter
By Keith Hayward In this article, Keith explains in simple terms how life got going from complex carbon molecules and how life comes from...

Keith Hayward
Apr 30, 20246 min read


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


Rochdale by-election: how I was cancelled and discriminated against by the Green Party
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, 20247 min read


Poet’s Corner: only one life
By David Seddon David is a retired English teacher and an active member of Stockport Humanists Progress George had been great at...

David Seddon
Apr 30, 20241 min read


Citizens’ Assemblies: can they help reverse the decline in public trust of key institutions?
By John Coss John is Vice chair of Stockport Humanists. In this article he explains how citizens’ assemblies seek to combine two...

John Coss
Apr 27, 20245 min read


Editor’s Welcome
There are many claims on how to “cheat death” from living healthy lifestyles, freezing our bodies, an after life, or editing our genes.

David Warden
Mar 31, 20242 min read


Donald Trump’s Surprising Pivot: “I am now a humanist”
New York, April 1, 2024 — In an unexpected twist that has taken the world by storm, former President Donald Trump announced today, on...

David Warden
Mar 31, 20242 min read


On the BBC: Faith to Faithless helpline and CofE involvement in the slave trade
On 10th March, BBC's Radio 4 programme Sunday ran an interesting item on the new Faith to Faithless helpline for people leaving high...

Maggie Hall
Mar 31, 20241 min read


How to bribe humanists to attend an AGM: make a meal of it...
At Dorset Humanists we know the true meaning of bribery! An AGM might not be the most exciting meeting of the year, but with the promise...

News
Mar 31, 20242 min read


An MP’s defence of bishops in the House of Lords
Our columnist Maggie Hall wrote to her MP, Maria Caulfield, about Bishops in the House of Lords and this is the response she got: Dear...

David Warden
Mar 31, 20241 min read


Beacons for Humanism in Africa: Uganda Humanist Schools Latest News
By Steve Hurd Chairperson of the Uganda Humanist Schools Trust. Steve is pictured above on the right, with his son Dan and wife Hilary....
Steve Hurd
Mar 31, 20244 min read


Eagle’s View: should the Uganda Humanist Schools Trust support an additional humanist primary school?
By Steve Hurd Steve is Chairperson of the Uganda Humanist Schools Trust. In this article he explains the challenge of deciding whether...
Steve Hurd
Mar 31, 20245 min read


New extremism definition may put free speech at risk, NSS warns
On 7th March, the National Secular Society issued a warning that a proposed new definition of "extremism" could have “far-reaching...

David Warden
Mar 31, 20243 min read


The final frontier: should we try to transplant human heads?
By Aaron, our Design and Layout Editor Having transplanted skin, hands, livers and many other body parts, is it only a matter of time...

Aaron the Humanist
Mar 31, 20243 min read


Healthy ageing: the top 50 factors
By John Coss, Vice chair of Stockport Humanists Most of us aspire to a long, healthy life and a good death. In this article, I review...

John Coss
Mar 31, 20248 min read


Happiness studies for humanists: what is the autotelic personality?
By Alessia Ianucci An autotelic personality refers to an individual who has a tendency to engage in activities for their own sake,...

Alessia Ianucci
Mar 31, 20242 min read


A Christian-Humanist dialogue on death and immortality
By Andreas Isenberg (who has become a Christian) and Alessia Ianucci (who remains firmly in the Humanist camp) In a serene garden, under...

Alessia Ianucci
Mar 31, 20243 min read
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