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ng conduct. Posts may also be removed if they contain hate speech, excessive profanity, advertisements for a page or product, spam, irrelevant content, or infringement of copyrights and trade marks, as well as any comment which is posted repeatedly. Humanists UK, 39 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB
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25/08/2026

You might be a humanist if...
..you don't believe in a god, but you do believe in compassion.
..you think being good matters just as much when nobody's keeping score. Maybe more.
..faced with a moral question, you ask 'how would I want to be treated in their shoes?' and find it works pretty well.
..you don't know exactly what happens when we die, but you're fairly sure it isn't pearly gates. Either way, it's this life that counts.
..you value telling the truth and treating people with kindness, and you've never seen why those should be in tension.
..you might call yourself a 'humanist' or an 'atheist', or you might not call yourself anything at all. You just try to be a decent person and think for yourself.

👇 Which one are you? Tell us in the comments.

A very happy 69th birthday today, to our patron Stephen Fry!
24/08/2026

A very happy 69th birthday today, to our patron Stephen Fry!

'By the time I finished it, I knew I'd left that faith behind.'Writing in the Guardian, our Vice President Alice Roberts...
21/08/2026

'By the time I finished it, I knew I'd left that faith behind.'

Writing in the Guardian, our Vice President Alice Roberts on the book that ended her faith – Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker – and on becoming a humanist long before she knew the word for it.

Link to the full article in the comments!

Today marks 100 years since the birth of George Melly — jazz singer, critic, writer, and President of the British Humani...
17/08/2026

Today marks 100 years since the birth of George Melly — jazz singer, critic, writer, and President of the British Humanist Association (now Humanists UK) from 1972 to 1974.

Melly faced mortality without fear, finding that his atheism sharpened rather than dulled his appreciation for the life he'd lived. His words still resonate with humanists today.

Happy centenary, George. 🎷

Party on, dudes! 🎸
12/08/2026

Party on, dudes! 🎸

Representatives of the global humanist community have adopted The Ottawa Declaration on Humanism as Resistance at the 20...
11/08/2026

Representatives of the global humanist community have adopted The Ottawa Declaration on Humanism as Resistance at the 2026 general assembly of Humanists International, held in Ottawa, Canada. It affirms that humanism is not just a set of values, but an active approach to life.

Authoritarianism, hatred, and attacks on human rights cannot be met with indifference. Humanists believe in the equal dignity and freedom of every person, and those principles have to be actively defended.

11/08/2026

The Odyssey is 'the original narrative of the striving of humanity – and of the need, also, to beware of what you want, in case you ever do, as Cavafy says, "finally get home to Ithaca". It may turn out that it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive.'

Author and humanist Christopher Hitchens.

There's a solar eclipse happening this Wednesday.Maximum coverage will peak shortly after 19:00.So, embrace your inner S...
10/08/2026

There's a solar eclipse happening this Wednesday.

Maximum coverage will peak shortly after 19:00.

So, embrace your inner Sagan, and enjoy the show.

This level of coverage won't happen again until 2081!

A huge success for inclusive education.After a decade of tireless work from our education and campaigns teams, humanist ...
10/08/2026

A huge success for inclusive education.

After a decade of tireless work from our education and campaigns teams, humanist representatives now sit on 153 out of 173 local bodies that decide the RE curriculum in schools across England and Wales.

Some people are surprised that we want a say in how Religious Education is taught... or that we want it taught at all! But when taught well, good Religious Education (or Religion, Values, and Ethics as it’s called in Wales) is vitally important.

At its best, it prepares pupils for a world where they will meet people of diverse beliefs, values, and convictions. As well as providing greater understanding of these differences, it teaches important skills, including how to question, explore, and contextualise others’ views.

Badly taught RE can result in some pupils being taught that there are no morals without religion. More humanists involved in designing RE curriculums helps to make sure that this is never the case – so that every child’s right to a fair and balanced education is upheld.

Trigger warning. Graphic descriptions.Today, on , we remember Victoria Climbié – an eight-year-old girl who was torture...
10/08/2026

Trigger warning. Graphic descriptions.

Today, on , we remember Victoria Climbié – an eight-year-old girl who was tortured to death in London in February 2000 by her great-aunt, Marie-Thérèse Kouao, and Kouao's partner, Carl Manning.

Victoria was starved, burned, and beaten with coat hangers and a bicycle chain. She was bound hand and foot and left in a freezing bathroom. When she died, she weighed just 3st 10lb (23.5kg) and had 128 separate injuries on her small body.

In 2013, eight-year-old Ayesha Ali died in east London after her mother's partner convinced her mother that Ayesha was possessed by the devil. She was beaten, terrorised at night by masked figures, and given cold baths as punishment. She had suffered more than fifty injuries by the time she died.

In the UK today, witchcraft and ritual-abuse related child abuse remains drastically underreported. In 2024, police investigated just seven such cases out of 4,450 child abuse investigations recorded – while a national helpline found that over 3% of its calls referenced organised or ritualistic abuse.

A 2025 survey found that 38% of UK psychologists had worked on at least one case involving satanic or ritualised abuse.

Some children are accused because a disability – autism, epilepsy, Down's syndrome – is misread as a sign of evil. Others are made scapegoats for a family's misfortune. In every case, a belief is used to excuse the inexcusable.

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