Silicon is abundant and versatile, and is a foundational component of our modern world. We live in the Great Age of Silicon.

Aaron has been a keen observer of marriage and divorce in family and friends. He wonders what goes wrong, and can Star Trek help?

By Dr Karen Blakeley Karen Blakeley spent ten years at the University of Winchester Business School specialising in leadership...

By Alex Williams Human relationships can be beautiful and enriching, but they can also be fickle and treacherous. Too often, religious...

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...