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UK Solar Eclipse alert – Tomorrow Fri 20th March
Hopefully you have picked up on what is about to happen and are aware that an eclipse is about to take place on Friday here in the UK. It is exciting (for those of us into such events) because we have...
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Election Time – BHA questions for your MP – #GE2015
Hey now this is interesting, the British Humanist Association has set up a facility that enables you to automatically send a series of questions to your local candidates. You start with their suggested...
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Humanist guide on who you might like to vote for
So my ballot papers have arrived and as I opened them up to vote (yes, I get to vote early by post, so it is make-my-mind-up time) I suddenly realised that I still have no idea which box I should tick...
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New UK government has pledged to scrap the Human Rights act
Much to the complete astonishment of many, the newly elected Tory government in the UK has pledged to abolish the existing Human Rights act. So who will lead the charge on this? Michael Gove, the...
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What is really wrong with Shari’a courts
You might, or perhaps might not, be aware that there is a thriving system of alternative courts that serves the Islamic community in the UK. They operate under the banner of “Arbitration” and so are...
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Is Zero Alcohol really the safest best option?
If you live in the UK then you may be aware that the UK government has issued new guidelines that revise the previously existing twenty year old recommendations … The UK’s chief medical officers say...
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Is The Church of England relevant anymore?
A recent survey now reveals that only 760,000 attend Church of England Sunday services and so obviously well over 62 million other people don’t. This is all part of an ongoing downward trend that has...
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UK Petition Alert: Remove Church of England Bishops from the House of Lords
We have a UK Petition rolling that calls for the clerics within the House of Lords to be removed … With the publication of the Church of England’s intention to sanction the US Episcopal Church over the...
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Is “No Religion” the rising inevitable trend in the UK?
Quite clearly we in the UK are undergoing a huge shift in our cultural thinking. A recent YouGov poll carried out by Lancaster University has revealed that “No Religion” is very much the rising...
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fair admissions to schools in UK? Nope.
I once worked in a situation where various companies provided services to a large corporate client that I worked with, and one of those service providing companies was in the habit of issuing a weekly...
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A case study of Islamism within British Universities
The UK’s Council of Ex-Muslims has published a case study on the prevalence of Islamism within British Universities that has been written by Ibn Al Qalleb, and edited by the Iranian Human Rights...
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#ResignCameron appears to be a fun feed because of #panamapapers
The revelation via the Panama Papers that the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, has personally benefited from a secret offshore fund setup by his dad, and that he now admits that this is indeed the...
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What do British Muslims Really Think?
Channel 4 recently aired a programme that was designed to reflect the results of a comprehensive survey that they commissioned, and as might be expected, there have been complaints. It is perhaps...
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Religious Discrimination … in the UK
So this tale rather astonished me. The Shropshire Star reports … Non-church pupil told he can’t travel on Telford school bus A family say they are unable to get their son on a council-run school bus...
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Are there really more Atheists than Christians in the UK?
So the news … as reported via Sky and many others is this … Atheist Numbers Surge In England And Wales Research says that the Anglican and Catholic churches are failing to hold on to those brought up...
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Janet Street-Porter shocked by facts … and so dismisses them
I was writing a few days ago about the recent survey that revealed that the people who do not have a religious belief in the UK are now up to 48.5% and so outnumber the biggest religious belief,...
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The #BREXIT Delusion
This is a topic that might indeed cause many eyes to glaze over, and so perhaps that especially applies to those that do not live in the UK. Since I do, then it is time for me to chip in with my 2c...
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#Brexit … how should you vote?
It’s #BREXIT day, and so for those of us in the UK it is time to vote, and so I have a couple of takes on this to share. One is quite funny, and the other is a serious bit of fact based analysis from a...
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What happens now that #BREXIT has become a reality? – #EURef
(Rant Mode on) I never believed it and simply did not grasp that it would actually happen. Why not? Well because I simply did not think that we had a sufficiently large enough number of utterly stupid...
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#BREXIT #EURef – Will the UK really leave the EU?
It appears to be starting to dawn on many that it is distinctly possible that the UK is not actually about to quit the EU even if every politician going is parroting “the people have spoken, we must...
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