Congratulations to our founding editor David Brittain who has been invited to a Humanists UK dinner on Tuesday 4th November to celebrate the appointment of the UK Armed Forces first ever humanist pastoral carer. David led the UK Armed Forces Humanist Association at a critical juncture, helping to lay the foundations for its eventual success. Our main theme for this issue is radicalisation. ‘Radical’ is a word with an honourable past. It comes from the Latin radix meaning root. To think...

By David Warden In this article, David attempts to clarify what distinguishes humanist conviction from the kind of certainty that can tip into radicalisation. David is chairman of Dorset Humanists and editor of Humanistically Speaking . This month’s issue of Humanistically Speaking  examines radicalisation from multiple angles – from the grip of violent extremism explored by Anthony Lewis, to the contested boundaries of protest in Maggie Hall’s reflections on Just Stop Oil and Palestine...

By David Warden David is the humanist representative on the Bournemouth & Poole Holocaust Memorial Committee. In this article, writing in a personal capacity, he responds to some of the criticisms made by John Baxter of his article on anti-Zionism in our August issue. I'm very grateful to John Baxter for his detailed reply to my article about anti-Zionism in our August issue. I can't respond in detail to every point he has made because it would make this article far too long. What I have...