Diary
Humanist Week display in Ipswich Central Library
Tuesday, Jun 21, 2011For Humanist Week, this week, John Palmer and other committee members have created a display in Suffolk Central Library in Northgate Street, Ipswich. June 21st, the midsummer solstice, is World Humanist Day. The display lists the names of some leading humanists and shows some of the books they’ve written, to encourage library users to find out more. It also shows our two websites: www.suffolkhands.org.uk and www.agoodlifewithoutreligion.com. Click here for a map to the library.Suffolk County Library, Northgate Street, Ipswich
Tuesday, Jun 21, 2011A C Grayling wont be the BHAs president after all
Friday, Jun 17, 2011The Pod Delusion reports that Anthony Grayling has said that he won’t take up the presidency of the BHA on July 1st because of the controversy surrounding plans for his 18,000 a year New College of the Humanities. Current BHA President Polly Toynbee will stay on until she can be replaced.Grassroots Lib Dems warn government about faith groups and the Big Society
Wednesday, Jun 15, 2011We’ve been concerned that the Conservatives’ ‘Big Society‘ idea offers a lot of encouragement for faith organisations to provide public services, yet faith-based welfare is fraught with problems. Now former MP Dr Evan Harris and grassroots Lib Dems are warning the Government that it shouldn’t press ahead with this policy without ensuring that strict rules are in place to prevent proselytising, among other things. Today’s Guardian quotes Harris as saying,Bill to curb sharia courts
Friday, Jun 10, 2011The Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill, has been introduced into the House of Lords by Baroness Caroline Cox (independent), with the support of the One Law for All campaign. The bill doesn’t aim to interfere with religious freedom, but does aim to stop the discrimination against women under the sharia law system. Read the National Secular Society’s report on their website. Currently, many British Muslim women suffer unequal access to divorce, domestic violence and general injustice, while their rights aren’t recognised by sharia courts.Website gremlins
Friday, Jun 10, 2011Our website, powered by a free content management system called Drupal, has been updated recently. Since then we’ve noticed that some punctuation marks have been replaced by odd symbols. We’re fixing them when we can, but if you’d like to draw our attention to any, please click here to contact us. Thanks.Ipswich Science in the Pub
Monday, Jun 6, 2011Usual time, usual place.6 months in Ghana
Tuesday, May 24, 2011View Larger Map Our webmaster, Nathan Nelson, is flying out to Kumasi in Ghana for 6 months on the 8th June, where his other half, Harriet, is being sponsored to work with an organisation called Millennium Villages, while Nathan finds some other ways to make himself useful. You can follow their adventures on their blog, Ghana 180.Ipswich Science in the Pub
Tuesday, May 17, 2011Usual time, usual place…Professor Edzard Ernst retiring as Director of the Complementary Medicine Research Group
Monday, May 16, 2011Professor Edzard Ernst, who was a guest speaker at a recent Ipswich Science in the Pub meeting, has announced his retirement as Director of the Complementary Medicine Research Group. We’re hoping that he’ll come and talk to us soon. Zeno, aka Alan Henness, has published an interview with Prof. Ernst on his blog. He ended by asking what Edzard would do when he fully retires, and the professor replied: Become really outspoken about quackery and charlatans.