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Cover of the Centenary issue of the Freethinker, May 1981, with contributions by notable humanists Harold Blackham and Margaret Knight, and Dora, the second wife of Bertrand Russell. Chapman… Read More

Image by Dominic Flamini from PixabayThe image at the top of this post shows a Venn diagram depicting the overlap between three common image formats. The content is not relevant, but I wante… Read More

Watson Heston, Two Ways to Go. Originally published in The Truth Seeker and reprinted in The Freethinkers’ Pictorial Text-Book, New York: The Truth Seeker Company, 1890.The post Image… Read More

Tylorstown, Rhondda Valley, Wales (2021). Image: ProfDEH via wikimedia Commons. When Rhodri Morgan, the former First Minister of Wales, was given a public, humanist funeral at the Welsh Parl… Read More

Laboratory in the Islamic University of TEchnology, Bangladesh (2014). Image: Ibrahm Husain Meraj via Wikimedia Commons.Advancements in scientific research have been overturning clerical heg… Read More

Steven Greer at the Oxford Institute for British Islam. Image: Declan HenryIntroduction An expert on human rights might seem to be an unlikely target for censorship by a British universit… Read More

Bertrand Russell in 1957. Image: Fotograaf Onbekend / Anefo via Wikimedia Commons.Humanists contributed immeasurably to ethical debates in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Relatively sm… Read More

Jesus and Mo, ‘Book’, 1 March 2023. Image: Mohammed Jones.The trial of Ashfaq Masih will mean little to people in Britain today. It could be suggested that it means even less in… Read More

The Semitic gods and the BibleSemitic gods and the Bible - by D. M. Bennett -Being over three hundred pages from "The gods and religions of ancient and modern times." Written while unjustlyD… Read More

Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts, by Jed Perl (Knopf, 2022). As W.H. Auden put it, ‘If the criterion of art were its power to incite to action, Goebbels would be one of the… Read More

Image: Academica Press.On April 26, I returned to my alma mater, the University of Edinburgh, to attend a film screening hosted by the Edinburgh chapter of Academics for Academic Freedom. Th… Read More

Nuriyah Khan, an ex-Muslim who runs a YouTube channel. In Pakistan, religion exerts a significant influence over society. This often results in restricted freedom of expression for those wit… Read More

Humanly Possible, by Sarah Bakewell. Image: Chatto & Windus 2023. Sarah Bakewell is what you might call a non-organised humanist. That is not to say she is disorganised (far from it), bu… Read More

Mind in animalsMind in animals -by Ludwig BüchnerThe question of mind in animals and of their intellectual capacities as compared with those of men is as old as man's thought; it can sc… Read More

Abolish the Monarchy, cover of first edition. Image: Penguin, 2023. During the coronation of King Charles III, the Metropolitan Police arrested 64 people, most of whom they claimed were ther… Read More

Freethinker, vol. 102, no. 12, December 1982, p. 190.The above image is of page 190 of the Freethinker, vol. 102, no. 12, December 1982. It includes a letter by Albert E. Standley, which led… Read More

Amree Maharaj, Chanda’s mother. Still from a filmed interview conducted by Shaukat Korai, Pakistan, 2023.‘We are Hindus. Shoot to kill us, but don’t take our children away… Read More

Hong Kong riot police, 7 September 2019. taken in front of the Tung Chung MTR station during the 7 September airport protest. photo and context by: Tauno Tõhk. Photo under licence via… Read More

Centenary celebrations at the Freethinker, July 1981, with Jim Herrick centre. Photograph by Barry Duke, editor of the Freethinker from 1998–January 2022. page copyright: Freethinker (… Read More

[Editor’s note: Reprinted from the Freethinker, 28 March 1970, pp. 100 – 101. Images of the article as originally published appear at the end. Some organisations have changed the… Read More

Redacted: Speech and Thought in jail, by Paul Fitzgerald.For a bibliography of our articles on free speech and free thought, see Free Speech in the Freethinker. Enjoy this cartoon? Subscr… Read More

‘KaZoHa’, the Abuja Safe House, at its launch in late 2019. Mubarak Bala is standing on the far left; Amina Ahmed is in blue, third from the left. Image: Humanist Mutual Aid Netw… Read More

The ethic of freethought and other addresses and essaysI have allowed the original preface to this work, as well as one or two essays, to be again reprinted with but slight revision, not bec… Read More

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) in 1917. Image via Wikimedia Commons.President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triumphed in a closely contested election in May, ensuring another five years… Read More

Charlotte Johnson, the first clothing designer of the Barbie dolls, with the 1965 model. Photograph: Nelson Tiffany for Los Angeles Times, via Wikimedia Commons.The series of plastic dolls m… Read More

Cartoon by Mohammed Jones. First published on jesusandmo.net, 31 May 2023. Reproduced with permission. Enjoy this cartoon? Subscribe to our free fortnightly newsletter for the latest upda… Read More

Eliza Flower, from a drawing by Mrs E. Bridell-Fox. Image: Conway Hall Ethical Society. I first encountered Eliza Flower (1803-46) in an online search for women composers from Essex during t… Read More

Exo-planet K2-18b: artist’s impression. Image: Arndt Stelter via Wikimedia Commons.New signs of life elsewhere in the galaxy? The BBC recently reported that NASA’s James Webb Spa… Read More

A protest in front of the Swedish Embassy in Tehran against the Quran-Burning in Sweden, 23 July 2023. Image: Tasnim News Agency via Wikimedia commons.The recent burning of the Quran in the… Read More

From the Jesus and Mo series. First published 14th January 2015. Enjoying the Freethinker? Subscribe to our free fortnightly newsletter for the latest updates on freethought. Or make a do… Read More

National Freethought Day is an annual observance that celebrates the principles of freethought. It highlights the importance of critical thinking, secularism, and rationality in society. Thi… Read More

‘Children at Fen Ditton Junior School sit at their desks and say Grace before they drink their mid-morning milk’, 1944. Image: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer… Read More

Shalu Raizada (Middle). Photo provided by the author.On August 15, India’s 76th Independence Day, Aditi* and Shrey*, a married Hindu couple, visited Ishrat Kazmi, a retired school prin… Read More

AI image produced by R. Toone using Zoo, an open source project from Replicate.9 June this year marked the tenth anniversary of the death of the Scottish author Iain Banks. A self-declared … Read More

The Freethinker editorial team: Daniel Sharp and Emma Park. A round-up of recent and upcoming talks by the Freethinker editorial team, as well as a couple from the National Secular Society a… Read More

Introduction Charles Freeman is a scholar of the ancient world, perhaps best known for his books Egypt, Greece and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean (first edition 1996… Read More

graham smith photographed during this interview in the conway hall foyer café. Image: Freethinker (2023). Introduction On 25 November, 2023, at the historic Conway Hall in Londo… Read More

“Humans have limitations, and no one knows this better than scientists. But a multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations … Read More

Tribune OnlineMusic beyond belief in Africa MUSIC beyond belief refers to irreligious music and songs, including humanist, atheist, and freethought songs. The pervasiveness of religion in Af… Read More

Nonbelief is a growing phenomenon in black communities because a growing number of black people are going open and public with their nonbelief and irreligiosity. Many people in black communi… Read More

‘Two journalists discuss freedom of speech’, Image generated by Dall-E from a prompt by E. Park, December 2023.2023 has been an eventful year for free thought, humanism and secul… Read More

Universal Declaration of Peace (UDP) of 2023 Preamble: We, the peaceful adepts representing people of all religions, non-religions and cultural backgrounds, acknowledge the inherent wo… Read More

Also Available On: use to open your podcast app Online Links Freedom of Thought Report International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 Frank… Read More

At a time when a third of adults in the United States say they have no religious affiliation, secular congregations fill a need for some nonreligious Americans. Shared testimonies, collec… Read More

Also Available On: use to open your podcast app Our Guest Bruce Gerencser Bruce Gerencser pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five year… Read More

Faith Watch is a monthly round-up of the errors, disasters and absurdities following in the wake of religions around the world, by our assistant editor, Daniel James Sharp. Fanatics in… Read More

‘Wha wants me’, a caricature of Thomas Paine by Isaac Cruikshank (1792). Find out more here. 9 February marks the birthday of the great revolutionary and freethinker Thomas Pa… Read More

Truthseeker tracts upon a variety of subjects, by different authorsTruth seeker tracts upon a variety of subjectsExcerptAn apology is hardly necessary for presenting these Tracts in this for… Read More

Armstrong recently went off out of their greatest leaders condition amidst allegations out-of sexual misconduct and you may legal actionsShows annihilationism, salvation by-law-staying, Sabb… Read More

Don’t forget to look me up on Instagram, and Twitter under “RealAutismSpeak” if you want to follow my daily exploits, for more than what I’m able to put out here&ndas… Read More

Faith Watch is an idiosyncratically compiled monthly round-up of the errors, disasters and absurdities following in the wake of religions around the world, by our assistant editor, Daniel Ja… Read More

khadija khan at the council of ex-muslims of britain ramadan protest outside the Pakistani embassy in London. image: khadija khan. While Ramadan is a sacred month for Muslims, let us not… Read More

‘Friends are ready for Iftar in Ramadan @ Margalla Hills – Islamabad‘. © AQAS Clicks | Waqas Photography. image used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alik… Read More

Editorial note: this is a lightly edited republication of the speech given by Leo Igwe at the American Atheists National Convention in Philadelphia on 30 March 2024. leo igwe giving his… Read More

Michael Meyer has produced this splendidly researched and written account of the 1877 trial of Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant for republishing the American doctor Charles Knowlton&rs… Read More

Introducing Books From Bob’s Library, a semi-regular series in which freethought book collector and National Secular Society historian Bob Forder delves into his extensive collection a… Read More

Women displaying placards during Aurat March 2019. image credit: Nawab Afridi. Image used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. The placard on the le… Read More

narendra modi in september 2021. During the campaign for the polls which have seen him suffer major setbacks in his bid to be elected for a third successive term today, Indian Prime Minis… Read More

Ajita Kesakambali, ancient Indian materialist and one of the Six Heretics. read more here. With Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party facing a setback in the polls, now is a good… Read More

Books From Bob’s Library is a semi-regular series in which freethought book collector and National Secular Society historian Bob Forder delves into his extensive collection and shares… Read More