Brian Hawkins
@panbrae.bsky.social
Humanist Celebrant, reader, father of two, member of SNP.
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FAUX Fake News can Never Tarnish Obama's Legacy.......
August 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
FAUX Fake News can Never Tarnish Obama's Legacy.......
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What an inspiring night with activists at the Stop Trump organising meeting with @owenjones.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @seemasyeda.bsky.social & others.
We can get this state visit stopped and build against trumpism here.
We can get this state visit stopped and build against trumpism here.
March 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What an inspiring night with activists at the Stop Trump organising meeting with @owenjones.bsky.social @ayoub.bsky.social @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @seemasyeda.bsky.social & others.
We can get this state visit stopped and build against trumpism here.
We can get this state visit stopped and build against trumpism here.
Leaving a high-control religious group can be incredibly difficult and even dangerous. Humanists UK's powerful new animation lets those who leave know they're not alone, and that help is out there! Support #FaithtoFaithless and watch today.
humanists.uk/faithtofaith...
humanists.uk/faithtofaith...
Introducing Faith to Faithless | Helping people leaving high-control religious groups
Leaving a high-control religious group can be one of the most challenging and painful experiences anyone can face. Humanists UK's new animation brings these deeply personal stories to life.
humanists.uk
March 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Leaving a high-control religious group can be incredibly difficult and even dangerous. Humanists UK's powerful new animation lets those who leave know they're not alone, and that help is out there! Support #FaithtoFaithless and watch today.
humanists.uk/faithtofaith...
humanists.uk/faithtofaith...
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Nigel Farage decides to be honest about Brexit.
January 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Nigel Farage decides to be honest about Brexit.
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Manchester you’re better than this. What a tawdry gimcrack money whore of a place you have become. Manhattan On Irwell? Buildings with no architectural merit cynically thrown up with no new schools, docs etc. The Victorian capitalists built hospitals, libraries etc the owners of these pustules? Nada
February 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Manchester you’re better than this. What a tawdry gimcrack money whore of a place you have become. Manhattan On Irwell? Buildings with no architectural merit cynically thrown up with no new schools, docs etc. The Victorian capitalists built hospitals, libraries etc the owners of these pustules? Nada
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Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎
February 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎
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In case you missed it:
Harriet Harman, former BBC Director-General Lord Birt, and Lord Scriven have introduced an amendment to reform Parliament so that bishops can no longer claim 26 automatic reserved seats in the House of Lords. Long overdue reform!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Harriet Harman, former BBC Director-General Lord Birt, and Lord Scriven have introduced an amendment to reform Parliament so that bishops can no longer claim 26 automatic reserved seats in the House of Lords. Long overdue reform!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Scrap automatic right of bishops to sit in Lords, says Harriet Harman
Former Labour MP puts forward amendment to reform bill aiming to end privilege for 26 C of E bishops
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In case you missed it:
Harriet Harman, former BBC Director-General Lord Birt, and Lord Scriven have introduced an amendment to reform Parliament so that bishops can no longer claim 26 automatic reserved seats in the House of Lords. Long overdue reform!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Harriet Harman, former BBC Director-General Lord Birt, and Lord Scriven have introduced an amendment to reform Parliament so that bishops can no longer claim 26 automatic reserved seats in the House of Lords. Long overdue reform!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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No more delays, no more excuses.
Thousands of couples in England & Wales are waiting to have legally recognised humanist marriages. There's simply no good reason to keep them jilted.
Fantastic to see such support thrown behind our marriage campaign!
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/j...
Thousands of couples in England & Wales are waiting to have legally recognised humanist marriages. There's simply no good reason to keep them jilted.
Fantastic to see such support thrown behind our marriage campaign!
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/j...
Justice Committee presses Government: legally recognise humanist marriages immediately
The House of Commons’ Justice Select Committee has pressed the UK Government to legally recognise humanist marriages without further delay. Committee Chair Andy Slaughter MP has written to Marriage Mi...
humanists.uk
January 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
No more delays, no more excuses.
Thousands of couples in England & Wales are waiting to have legally recognised humanist marriages. There's simply no good reason to keep them jilted.
Fantastic to see such support thrown behind our marriage campaign!
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/j...
Thousands of couples in England & Wales are waiting to have legally recognised humanist marriages. There's simply no good reason to keep them jilted.
Fantastic to see such support thrown behind our marriage campaign!
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/j...
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Today our CEO Fraser Sutherland is presenting to Holyrood's health committee on the bill to give terminally ill Scots the right to an assisted death. This morning Fraser wrote a column for @heraldscotland.bsky.social explaining the humanist perspective on #AssistedDying.
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January 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today our CEO Fraser Sutherland is presenting to Holyrood's health committee on the bill to give terminally ill Scots the right to an assisted death. This morning Fraser wrote a column for @heraldscotland.bsky.social explaining the humanist perspective on #AssistedDying.
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About time!
BREAKING: Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords.
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...
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Harriet Harman introduces amendment to remove bishops from the Lords
Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The amendme...
humanists.uk
January 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
About time!
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BREAKING: Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords.
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...
Harriet Harman introduces amendment to remove bishops from the Lords
Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords. The amendme...
humanists.uk
January 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
BREAKING: Harriet Harman has today put forward an amendment to the Government’s Hereditary Peers Bill which aims to end the automatic right of Church of England bishops to sit in the House of Lords.
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...
humanists.uk/2025/01/21/h...
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There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…
January 19, 2025 at 1:42 AM
There are so many things I would ban before TikTok, including SUVs and assault weapons…
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There's currently a bill under discussion at the Scottish parliament to legalise #AssistedDying for the terminally ill. Humanists passionately believe in assisted dying as a natural extension of our rights over our own bodies. If you agree, use our letter template to tell your MSP (link in replies)
January 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
There's currently a bill under discussion at the Scottish parliament to legalise #AssistedDying for the terminally ill. Humanists passionately believe in assisted dying as a natural extension of our rights over our own bodies. If you agree, use our letter template to tell your MSP (link in replies)
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I didn’t vote for this. None of us did.
January 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I didn’t vote for this. None of us did.
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Humanism is a non-religious worldview that believes we can come up with ethical answers to life's big questions without recourse to deities and superstition. If you agree with us, why not become a member? We campaign for reproductive and LGBT+ rights and lots more. Link in reply
January 12, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Humanism is a non-religious worldview that believes we can come up with ethical answers to life's big questions without recourse to deities and superstition. If you agree with us, why not become a member? We campaign for reproductive and LGBT+ rights and lots more. Link in reply
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Hi, we're Humanist Society Scotland, a human rights charity with secular values 👋
We're campaigning for decriminalised abortion, an end to anti-LGBT conversion practices, compassionate assisted dying laws, and more.
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We're campaigning for decriminalised abortion, an end to anti-LGBT conversion practices, compassionate assisted dying laws, and more.
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January 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hi, we're Humanist Society Scotland, a human rights charity with secular values 👋
We're campaigning for decriminalised abortion, an end to anti-LGBT conversion practices, compassionate assisted dying laws, and more.
Like what you read? Sign up to our free newsletter info. Link in replies
We're campaigning for decriminalised abortion, an end to anti-LGBT conversion practices, compassionate assisted dying laws, and more.
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Wanted: evangelical missionary for non-religious state school. Objectives: Convert, indoctrinate, segregate.
www.portsmouth.anglican.org/vacancies/pi...
www.portsmouth.anglican.org/vacancies/pi...
January 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Wanted: evangelical missionary for non-religious state school. Objectives: Convert, indoctrinate, segregate.
www.portsmouth.anglican.org/vacancies/pi...
www.portsmouth.anglican.org/vacancies/pi...
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The new role will enable 'growth in disciples of Christ' by 'growing a new worshipping community' at the school.
Another word for it is: evangelism.
Unacceptable. Alarming that this is occurring in a community school with no religious ethos.
www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/ro...
Another word for it is: evangelism.
Unacceptable. Alarming that this is occurring in a community school with no religious ethos.
www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/ro...
Row over plans to convert children to Christianity in non-religious school
A row has broken out plans to hire a new member of staff to help convert 60 pupils to Christianity at a Havant school.
www.portsmouth.co.uk
January 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The new role will enable 'growth in disciples of Christ' by 'growing a new worshipping community' at the school.
Another word for it is: evangelism.
Unacceptable. Alarming that this is occurring in a community school with no religious ethos.
www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/ro...
Another word for it is: evangelism.
Unacceptable. Alarming that this is occurring in a community school with no religious ethos.
www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/ro...
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Schools are for education, NOT for boosting church attendance and creating young 'disciples of Christ'.
Children deserve the right to form their own beliefs – without religious interference.
Such blatant evangelism has NO place in our schools.
humanists.uk/2025/01/10/d...
Children deserve the right to form their own beliefs – without religious interference.
Such blatant evangelism has NO place in our schools.
humanists.uk/2025/01/10/d...
C of E scheme to evangelise children at non-religious school in Havant
The Church of England has announced a scheme to try and recruit new children into the religion at a non-religious school in Havant, near Chichester. The Anglican Diocese of Portsmouth is advertising f...
humanists.uk
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Schools are for education, NOT for boosting church attendance and creating young 'disciples of Christ'.
Children deserve the right to form their own beliefs – without religious interference.
Such blatant evangelism has NO place in our schools.
humanists.uk/2025/01/10/d...
Children deserve the right to form their own beliefs – without religious interference.
Such blatant evangelism has NO place in our schools.
humanists.uk/2025/01/10/d...
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I continue to have the view that all online gambling should be banned, hard and fast, because it is inextricably linked to organised crime and money laundering
January 2, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I continue to have the view that all online gambling should be banned, hard and fast, because it is inextricably linked to organised crime and money laundering
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As I’ve said before, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it with speed & we need to do it with urgency & then we need to use it with truth & justice to send Elon Musk packing
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party
Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 9:33 PM
As I’ve said before, we need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet. We need to do it with speed & we need to do it with urgency & then we need to use it with truth & justice to send Elon Musk packing
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...