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Joan Bakewell

@JDBakewell

Broadcaster, journalist, novelist. President of Birkbeck, Labour Peer. Twice BAFTA winner. co-chair APPG Humanists. KnightAytonManagement

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Andrew Copson Humanists UK Too right. The treatment of refugees by the British state will be compared in future to the humanitarian outrages of Empire. There seems to be no limit to the egregious cruelty. It is good that the humanist movement should speak up against it.

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Sir Andrew Davis… we thought he’d always be there! We’ll miss him. Thanks for your love of and dedication to music.

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Just a reminder of what the Tories' mayoral candidate Susan Hall thought of Liz Truss’ disastrous budget.

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Reading another article in a national paper on how Christianity invented all good ideas - justice, love etc makes me recall wonderful lines of Simon Blackburn in his 2001 Voltaire Lecture, calling these claims, 'one of the most barefaced takeover bids in the history of thought'.

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The European Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation, following one of its greatest tragedies. For us to leave it would be a completely immoral abdication of responsibility.
humanists.uk/2024/04/11/rwa…

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ARTS WEEK 2024
7-10 MAY

A week of events showcasing the latest creativity and research emerging from Birkbeck

Well worth a look at this amazing programme πŸ‘‡

🧐

bbk.ac.uk/annual-events/…

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Good letter in today’s Guardian from Andrew Copson, CEO of Humanists UK: charitable-giving and religious belief are not co-dependent and mutually exclusive….

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