For as long as there have been human beings, there has been humanist thinking. ✨👀🌍💫 Our new video, 'Humanist history: from radical ideas to common sense', explores two millennia of humanist thinking, from its ancient and global roots, tracing humanist ideas through periods like the Renaissance, through to thinkers like Charles Darwin. It even covers the early history of Humanists UK itself! Today, humanist values have become 'common sense' for the majority of the UK population. Find out more,

'Why I am not a Christian' – humanist philosopher Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Russel died on this day 1970. One of the 20th century’s most influential public intellectuals, Russell was a logician, philosopher, activist, and lifelong humanist who believed that 'the good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.' In his famous 1927 lecture Why I Am Not a Christian, Russell set out a clear, compassionate, and rigorous critique of religion – rejecting superstition and absolutism, and argu