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Huge announcement! We’re delighted to welcome Janet Ellis as our next President. 🎉

Janet is a brilliant communicator with a unique ability to connect with people, and she embodies the warmth, curiosity, and compassion at the heart of the humanist outlook.

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Time for chocolate, too 😋
December 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Merry Christmas! Joyous Yule! Season’s Greetings! From Juno, Andrew Copson's lovely dog and the (very popular) Humanists UK office pooch. 🥰
December 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Lovely words by Bertie for today ❤️
Love is the source of the most intense delights that love has to offer. Bertrand Russell. #Humanist
December 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Season's greetings from everyone at Humanists UK!
Remember you humanity and forget the rest
December 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Our Vice President Jim Al-Khalili on what Christmas means to him as a humanist.
Humanists UK ‘I even celebrated Christmas as a boy growing up in Iraq as part of my cultural upbringing with an English mother. It was the most exciting and magical time of the year for us – even though I was officially a Muslim… There was never any religious flavour to it, but we’ve always enjoyed the associated stories and myths.’ Jim Al-Khalili Humanists UK Vice President
December 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Award-winning playwright, actor, political activist, and humanist, Harold Pinter, died #onthisday in 2008. Today we celebrate his life, work, legacy, and the commitment he had to humanism.
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Save on a subscription to New Humanist Magazine before 31 December. Get four print issues, plus full digital access and archives dating back to 1885, for just £21. A brilliant gift for the humanists in your life.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A lovely quote to start the day, by English poet Matthew Arnold, who was born #onthisday in 1822:

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy’d the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought,
To have done
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion
December 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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'Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.' Dora Russell. Activist and humanist
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Compassion, community, and Christmas: a humanist perspective. humanists.uk/2023/12/21/h...
‘Christmas day is military in its planning, and a full roast will be served at 3pm precisely, we toast the living and the dead, followed by sofa snoozing, board games, and being with my family, as many as we can squeeze in. For us, that’s what Christmas is all about: family. Four generations of our extended clan being noisy and feasting.’
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The stuff of my being is matter. Ever changing, ever moving, but never lost. Zora Neale Hurston. Writer and humanist
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Until 31 December, get four issues of New Humanist – plus full digital access and archives back to 1885 – for just £21. A perfect gift for the humanists in your life.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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What kind of world do humanists want? Humanists believe responsibility for building a better and fairer world falls on human beings alone. 1 One Life, One Planet Wrongs won’t be put right in another life after this one, so we need to work for justice and happiness for all in the here and now. 2 Democracy, human rights, freedom, equality, and education provide the best means to support human beings to live full and flourishing lives. 3 Humanists UK humanists.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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'Shame, suffering, horror there are, but there is also whispering in the wind. All is not lost. From the beginning of the end of life there is poetry. Llewelyn Powys. Author and humanist
December 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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'I wish to live because life has that within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.' Lorraine Hansberry. Playwright and humanist.
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Affection is the broadest basis of a good life. George Eliot - Novelist and humanist
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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How do humanists find meaning in life? Humanists believe that life’s meaning is not given to us, but that human beings can create meaning and happiness themselves. 1 Humanists find purpose in relationships, creativity, helping others, and making a positive impact on the world around us. 2 Each person’s path is different. Humanists support everyone’s right to think for themselves and shape their own life. 3 Humanists UK humanists.uk
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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‘I love Christmas. At this very special time of year, when the Sun appears only fleetingly to those of us living in the northern hemisphere, I feel a deep connection with ancient ancestors. I like to go for wintry walks, on crisp days in pale winter sunshine, finding a Neolithic monument or an Iron Age hillfort to explore with my children. It also feels right to hunker down, to be with friends and family, to celebrate friendship with the exchange of gifts, and to give to good causes.’ Alice Roberts Humanists UK Vice President
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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What do humanists think about death? Humanists believe that death is the end of our individual existence, and there is no afterlife. To humanists, this makes life precious and unique. 1 Rather than worrying about ‘the next life’, humanists focus on making the most of the one life we know we have, in the here and now. 2 Humanists believe we live on in the memories of others — through kindness, friendship, and the example we leave behind. 3 Humanists UK humanists.uk
December 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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THAT PERFECT TRANQUILLITY OF LIFE… IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, BUT IN RETREAT, A FAITHFUL FRIEND AND A GOOD LIBRARY. APHRA BEHN PLAYWRIGHT, SPY, AND HUMANIST Humanists UK
December 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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'It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is light.' James Baldwin Playwright and humanist.
December 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Looking for a thoughtful gift? Until 31 December, a New Humanist subscription costs just £21 – including four print issues and unlimited digital access to the archive back to 1885. Perfect for the humanists in your life.
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December 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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What I Believe is an inspiring collection of interviews with humanists in the public eye. Explore the breadth of non-religious thought through conversations with more than 30 humanists. Buy your copy today. humanists.uk/whatibelieve/
Humanists UK Featuring interviews with JANET ELLIS STEPHEN FRY, ALICE ROBERTS, JIM AL-KHALILI, SANDI TOKSVIG, and many more! WHAT I BELIEVE HUMANIST IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHIES TO LIVE BY Edited by ANDREW COPSON ‘What first made me identify as a humanist was the importance of the present, the importance of connections now, how our actions now matter… For a long time, I couldn’t articulate it… When I realised what it was, and when I could really really put a name to it — “humanist” — it was such a relief.’
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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How do humanists tell right from wrong? Humanists believe morality comes from our shared human needs and our ability to understand the consequences of our actions. 1 Humanists maintain that people don’t need to believe in gods to tell right from wrong. 2 Humanists try to reduce harm and increase well-being, treating others as we’d like to be treated. This is sometimes referred to as ‘the golden rule’. 3 THE RULE BOOK Humanists UK humanists.uk
December 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM