The following is a (substantially) adapted version of a talk I gave as President of Defence Humanists on World Humanist Day, 21 June 2022, to Ministry of Defence staff at the invitation of the Department's Humanists And Non-religious in Defence (HAND) network. We seem to be living in a Brave New World: the pandemic, the [...]
21 June is World Humanist Day. So I thought it worth posting a few thoughts about what it means, for me, to be a humanist. First, a bit of definition. A humanist is someone who believes that the Universe is natural, not supernatural, and looks to reason and science to explain it; that it's a [...]
Sometimes the modern world can feel pretty overwhelming. Perhaps it was ever so, but the intermingling of social media, streaming, 24 hour news media, commercialism and consumerism have pushed the volume up to sometimes ear-splitting levels and the colour palette to seldom less than garish. Where to find sense and meaning - and peace - [...]
A central principle of a working life - or, at least, of my working life - is that anything non-urgent can be put off until retirement. The folders full of paperwork, the stacked boxes of VHS and cassette tapes, the mid-1980s cheque book stubs, the vast collection of keys long dissociated from the locks in [...]
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