It was with great sadness that the Board of Trustees learned of the death of Sir Ludovic Kennedy, one of the Society's Distinguished Supporters.

Margo MacDonald MSP is to deliver a keynote speech at the Humanist Society of Scotland’s annual conference on Saturday 7th November 2009.

The MSP’s keynote speech will focus on her campaign to have an individual’s right to die with dignity enshrined in Scottish law through her proposed introduction of the End of Life Choices Bill in the Scottish Parliament over the coming months.   

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has echoed the Government’s response to a debate on the 4th November 2009 in the House of Lords on the BBC, Humanism, and Thought for the Day, saying that it ‘hopes the BBC has been listening’. The debate, called by Lord Harrison, and in which a number of peers declared their interest as ‘Happy Humanists’, took place on the eve of the BBC Trust’s deliberations on whether to allow non-religious contributors to the Today programme’s…

“Since I don’t believe in any God may I be excused from Christian assemblies and use the time to study for my highers which are rapidly approaching.”

This simple request, made by a sixteen year old pupil at a Scottish school in 2009, was rejected by the rector. Just one in a long catalogue of instances in which the law is being broken which were reported to the meeting held by the Glasgow Group of the HSS on Sunday 10th…

THEY are a rejection of God and officialdom at a time when marriages are at their lowest level since Victorian times. While traditional religious and civil weddings in Scotland declined by nearly 1,000 last year, the number of couples opting for a humanist ceremony surged by 45 per cent, official figures showed yesterday, writes Alastair Dalton in The Scotsman

Teresa Cooper has been fighting for justice for 18 years, but so far has only been given an out-of-court settlement without apology, reports The Evening Standard

Animal rights groups are celebrating, but fans say the ruling is nothing but a desire to be un-Spanish, reports Anita Brooks in The Independent

The Government is ready to back the creation of atheist schools as part of its series of reforms, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, said yesterday, reports Richard Garner, Education Editor of The Independent

Polls showed public faith in climate science dropping, and an increasingly vocal chorus of “climate sceptics” protesting that the credibility of climate science had been destroyed. But new research released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday…

Far from being enlightened, the attacks on Catholicism ahead of the pope’s UK visit are illiberal, censorious and ignorant, writes Kevin Rooney in Sp!ked

PM in a humanitarian call for Israel to end its blockade, reports The Mirror