Course: Humanist Lives, with Alice Roberts

Welcome to Humanist Lives. The course is broken up into six weeks: Week 1: Life stories Week 2: Freedom Week 3: Global goals Week 4: Hard times Week 5: More …

Going deeper In this course, we have only been able to skim the surface of what it means to live a humanist life. If you are interested in learning more …

This week This week we met individual humanists describing the sense of responsibility they feel to make the world a better place. They share the same goals as many people, …

We learned earlier in the course how much of the work done by humanist organisations today relates to the freedom of religion and belief, equality for the non-religious, and ethical …

‘Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, It retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, It swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter …

John Harris is a bioethicist and philosopher. He is the Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester. He is a Patron of Humanists …

Ian Dunt is editor of politics.co.uk and author of Brexit: What The Hell Happens Now?. He writes for a variety of newspapers and magazines and appears regularly on TV and …

Polly Toynbee is a journalist and writer. She has been a columnist for The Guardian since 1988. She is a Vice President of Humanists UK. Questions: How do human beings …

Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is a professor at the University of Surrey. Author of a number of popular science books and presenter of science …

Alom Shaha is a physics teacher, filmmaker, writer, and science communicator. He is the author of The Young Atheist’s Handbook and Mr Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder. Question: Does education provide …

Someone once said to me that there are three topics that you should avoid at a polite dinner party: death, sex, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Joking aside, in 2010, I …

Tom Copley is an elected member of the London Assembly, serving as a city-wide member since May 2012, and is a councillor on Lewisham London Borough Council. He is the …