
Partner group of @Humanists_UK, affiliated to @NatSecSoc. Our meetings (central Manchester plus groups in Stockport, Altrincham, Bolton & Oldham) open to all.
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Please ask your MP to support @Humanists_UK’s campaign for legal recognition of humanist marriages in England and Wales. 💍
Humanist weddings have increased by 266% over the last decade, so legal recognition is long overdue! Write to your MP here: humanists.uk/what-you-can-do…
3,000 signatures and rising.
Since we shared the petition this weekend, we have reached more than 3,000 signatures!
Thank you to everyone who has signed, shared, spoken out, and helped amplify the importance of safeguarding.
Our petition is calling for the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Recent events have raised serious questions about judgement, due diligence, accountability, and whether survivor voices are being heard, including those affected by abuse, terrorism, and institutional failure.
Every signature adds another voice.
If you have not yet signed, or would be willing to share the petition with others, any support would be greatly appreciated:
change.org/ABC-Resign
Thank you to everyone continuing to stand with survivors and support the call for change.
@AleemMaqbool @AndrewGraystone
@cathynewman @donna_birrell
@GuardintheFlock @HseofSurvivors
@kayaburgess @MadsDavies @NatSecSoc @Rgt71Robert @Richard_Scorer @seaofcomplicity @steveswannBBC
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The UK is one of the last western democracies with a state religion: the #ChurchofEngland. The Church's entanglement with the state is bad for both. Join our campaign to disestablish the Church. 👇👇👇 secularism.org.uk/disestabli… #Disestablishment #SeparateChurchAndState #CofE
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A former Commissioner for Countering Extremism on the UK's failure to curtail the Muslim Brotherhood and the shortcomings in the state’s "analytical capacity to understand Islamism, both in its violent and non-violent forms, in its totality."
In today’s @spectator I look at how a newly aggressive US approach to the Muslim Brotherhood, combined with ongoing UK inaction, is straining the special relationship. spectator.com/article/why-wo…
Fancy a Manc humanist themed self guided walk? You do? Well here you are then heritage.humanists.uk/wp-con…
Liz Truss, dark money and the gen-Z Catholics: who’s behind CPAC in the UK? Interesting when we are seeing RCs claiming Burnham’s +ves are because of his faith. Depends on what you do with it eh? thenerve.news/p/cpac-confere…
So here’s a question for those who rightly support the Miners’ Gala. Should it continue to have a connection with the CoE. It seems outdated and biased to still have banners “blessed” by one faith.
Especially as UK increasingly secular (separation of state and beliefs) and CoE is the established church of the state with a monarch as its head. Thoughts? Thanks. @Humanists_UK @NatSecSoc @The_TUC @orgreavejustice
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The appropriation of Christian iconography on Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom demo
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If God created the Universe, he must be an exceptional mathematician newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
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A Christian nationalist pastor who opposes women’s right to vote preaching at the Pentagon. Pete Hegseth is a menace to America’s secular ideals.
dailymail.com/wires/afp/arti…
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The Erdoğan administration has denied approval for an honorary doctorate which was due to be awarded to Oxford professor Peter Atkins - because he is an atheist.
secularism.org.uk/news/2026/…
Atheist professor’s award vetoed by Turkish Government secularism.org.uk/news/2026/… via @NatSecSoc
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Esther Rantzen: A handful of peers have forced terminally ill patients to suffer
For those of us who have witnessed our loved ones dying in agony, this looks more like torture
bit.ly/4t1YePx
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This is not the end.
We won't stop fighting until every dying person has choice.
Behind every terminally ill person is a nation that believes in choice
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Telling women they have no authority over their bodies, calling gay marriage “disgusting”, and saying gay people should be “institutionalised” serve no public benefit. Yet by classifying the advancement of religion as a charitable purpose, we end up legitimising this nonsense. @natsecsoc quoted
metro.co.uk/2026/04/16/women…
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This is interesting on the important work done by @gareth_gore to expose Opus Dei- work now even the Pope is interested in theguardian.com/world/2026/a…
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In UK the Crime and Policing Bill is woefully inadequate when judged against what the churches do. There is a “duty to report” child sex abuse but enforcement is effectively in the hands of employers who may (not must) refer non-reporters to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Canon law and #MandatoryReporting of Child Sexual Abuse to civil authorities
#LawReform
Countries would be well advised to follow Australian legislation to overcome deficiencies in #CanonLaw
ucanews.com/amp/canon-law-an…
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Those outraged by King Charles not delivering an “Easter Message” (which he’s never delivered before) & which Queen Elizabeth only did once in her 70 yr reign could, of course, pop into a church & listen to a live Easter message from the pulpit
Just ask your satnav where it is…
















