UK humanist Barbara Smoker would have turned 100 in April. The National Secular Society marked the event with a memorial this month.

BARBARA Smoker, above, who died on April 7, 2020, was a British humanist activist and freethought advocate. She was also President of the National Secular Society (NSS) for 24 years, Chair of the British Voluntary Euthanasia Society (now known as … Continue reading UK humanist Barbara Smoker would have turned 100 in April. The National Secular Society marked the event with a memorial this month.

Farewell to a Humanist hero: LGBT activist George Broadhead dies aged 87

IN the late 1970s, self-appointed Christian Morality Supremo Mary Whitehouse suffered a backlash after she successfully brought a private prosecution for blasphemous libel against Gay News. Stung by hostile reaction to the prosecution, Whitehouse began screeching that “everything good and … Continue reading Farewell to a Humanist hero: LGBT activist George Broadhead dies aged 87