Some belated Fourth of July reflections from the editor... freethinker.co.uk/2026/07/amer...

REMINDER: happening tonight!! freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/free...

Today in the Freethinker, a high school student tells her tale of feminist resistance during this year's Aurat March, which took place on International Women's Day. freethinker.co.uk/2026/07/i-wa...

UPDATE ON MATTHEW STEWART WEBINAR. Due to a family medical crisis, yesterday's Freethought History Webinar ft. Matthew Stewart on the radical, atheistic origins of the American Republic has been postponed to 5 July. You can still register here. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Today in the Freethinker, Samuel McKee continues his delve into futurism. How humanism became the new driver of futurism. freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/how-...

Our most recent webinar, on the transformative new @princetonupress.bsky.social edition of Thomas Paine's collected works, is now available for viewing. With Gary Berton and Scott Cleary, @thomaspaineha.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpMj...

Today (20 June) at 7:00 pm BST/2:00 pm ET, join this @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social Webinar with Gary Berton & Scott Cleary, among the co-editor cohort for PUP's forthcoming @tpcw2026.bsky.social (June 30 US, Aug 25 UK), to hear about this ambitious and important project. Register: buff.ly/K0GMp3x

REMINDER: Tomorrow our exciting webinar with editors of the new collected works of Thomas Paine is happening! Still time to sign up. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/free...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the significance of The Selfish Gene for the @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social ✍️ Click the link to read more 👇 freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/crys...

Tomorrow, 20 June at 7:00pm BST/2:00pm ET, join this @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social Webinar with Gary Berton & Scott Cleary, among the co-editor cohort for PUP's forthcoming @tpcw2026.bsky.social (June 30 US, Aug 25 UK), to hear about this ambitious and important project. Register: buff.ly/K0GMp3x

Thirty years of fighting for secularism in the UK: interview with Keith Porteous Wood, president of the National Secular Society @natsecsoc.bsky.social freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/thir...

Today in the Freethinker, Colin Brewer takes Baroness Ilora Finlay, Dr Joel Zivot, and Danny Kruger MP (among others) to task over their killing of the UK's recent attempt to legislate for assisted dying. freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/baro...

REMINDER: Sign up for our next Freethought History Webinar #11: A New Vision of Thomas Paine. With Gary Berton and Scott Cleary. Happening a week from today! freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/free...

Today in the Freethinker, Megan Manson @natsecsoc.bsky.social discusses Reform UK and their attempts to impose Christian prayers on local councils. ‘Those who try to use Christian identity politics to gain votes should note the public at large are not keen.’ freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/refo...

Today in the Freethinker, @jamiecweir.bsky.social reflects on 50 years of @rdawkins.bsky.social’s classic account of evolution, The Selfish Gene. 'Half a century on...[it] remains an essential explanation of the evolution of life.' freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/crys...

Today in the Freethinker, @jamiecweir.bsky.social reflects on 50 years of Richard Dawkins's classic account of evolution, The Selfish Gene. 'Half a century on...[it] remains an essential explanation of the evolution of life.' freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/crys...

A preview of the Richard Carlile chapter from the forthcoming book LOOSE CANNONS, an illustrated history of vivid freethinking humanist rebels, created by @polypartist.bsky.social and Madeleine Goodall. Plus crowdfunder for the book - contribute if you can! freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/rich...

Today in the Freethinker, Akash Srinivas interviews Iranian American writer and dissident Sahar Delijani. freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/inte...

Tolga Theo Yalur calls for a post-Islamic world. This doesn't mean the 'abandonment of personal faith. Instead, it refers to the systematic removal of religious dogma from the machinery of state governance and the analytical laboratory of the mind.' freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/a-ca...

Last year, the 'intelligent design' crowd made perhaps their biggest blunder yet, and in the process showed themselves both ignorant and contemptuous of their fellow religionists, says Samuel McKee. freethinker.co.uk/2026/06/a-re...

The next wave of global jihad will be Shia/Iran-aligned, argues Kunwar Khuldune Shahid. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

Today in the Freethinker, Sukhwant Daliwal reflects on the recent English local election results and asks why so many Asians stood for/supported Reform UK. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/when...

Today in the Freethinker, Bob Forder reviews 'a serious and polished attempt to tell the story of freethought in the USA' - the American Freethought film series from the @center4inquiry.bsky.social. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/revi...

Another Freethought History Webinar to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US founding. Matthew Stewart will discuss its radical, atheistic origins - a history which has been elided for far too long and which is especially important to remember now. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/free...

On the rise of the British radical right, by Zwan Mahmod. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

The recording of yesterday's webinar featuring Bonnie S. Anderson discussing the life of pioneering feminist and atheist Ernestine Rose is now available for viewing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1b...

Sign up for the next Freethought History Webinar, which will feature two of the editors of the new Princeton University Press edition of Thomas Paine's work - an edition which promises to transform our understanding of the great man. @thomaspaineha.bsky.social freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/free...

Sign up for the next Freethought History Webinar, which will feature two of the editors of the new Princeton University Press edition of Thomas Paine's work - an edition which promises to transform our understanding of the great man. @thomaspaineha.bsky.social freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/free...

The recording of yesterday's webinar featuring Bonnie S. Anderson discussing the life of pioneering feminist and atheist Ernestine Rose is now available for viewing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1b...

Golders Green, antisemitism, and the right to criticise Israel, by @rahilag.bsky.social. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/gold...

Happening in a couple of hours, come join us! freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/free...

REMINDER: there's still time to sign up for our next Freethought History Webinar, ft. Bonnie S. Anderson on feminist and freethought pioneer Ernestine Rose, happening later today. freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/free...

Did Jesus inaugurate a revolution in Western ethics? Nicholas E. Meyer reviews Bart Ehrman's recent book arguing just that. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/hono...

REMINDER: there's still time to sign up for our next Freethought History Webinar, ft. Bonnie S. Anderson on feminist and freethought pioneer Ernestine Rose, happening later today. freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/free...

REMINDER - the next Freethought History Webinar, ft. Bonnie Anderson on Ernestine Rose, is happening next week. Sign up now! freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/free...

Donald Christ and the AI threat to American democracy, by Matilda Gladwell. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

'The author of ‘The Great Silence —What Remains After Belief’ is no mere armchair theorist. He built himself his own electric “God Helmet” to test a point—and put his head into it. And turned on the juice.' Review by Nicholas E. Meyer. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/sile...

Our new featured image is a photo captured by the crew of the Artemis II lunar mission of April 2026 from NASA. Read more 👇 freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/imag...

Today in the Freethinker, Samuel McKee provides a dose of optimism with his call to futurism. 'Artemis II feels like a gift at this moment. It is an opportunity to champion a bolder vision of the future.' freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/a-ca...

Was very happy to have published this with the ever-excellent Freethinker Magazine. My 'Conspiracy Zone' mini comic is here- polyp.org.uk/books/the-co...

Vaccine mind control, climate change denial, 9/11 Trutherism, Pizzagate...and the rest. Paul Fitzgerald aka @polypartist.bsky.social takes a look at the sordid world of conspiracy theories, with cartoons from his new graphic book. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/the-...

Some Sunday reflections on the practicalities of the resurrection of the flesh, by Nicholas E. Meyer. "‘Er, this is indelicate, O Lord, but hundreds of thousands of millions of people will produce a real mass of poo in just one day…’" freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/hele...

A Scripted Farce: The 2025–26 Myanmar Election Exposed, by Hein Htet Kyaw. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/a-sc...

Here's how you can support the Freethinker and create a long-lasting legacy of freethought. freethinker.co.uk/2026/05/crea...

How 'Islamophobia' props up authority and stifles dissent, why free speech is essential, and why collective blame is never the answer, by @maryamnamazie.bsky.social. freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/isla...

'[We must] confront the reality that free and open exchanges of ideas...have led to the...dissemination of ideologies which are varying hues of destructive and insane' [email protected]. Can the Enlightenment ethos of free speech survive the internet? freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/onli...

'Being an immortalist liberates us from ghosting ourselves and one another in this life in order to prepare for the next, calling us...to the revolutionary, and, for some, terrifying reality that we are our bodies', says Joseph Bardin. freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/what...

I'm in @thefreethinkermag.bsky.social on online extremism's challenge to the Enlightenment: freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/onli...

Akash Srinivas for The Freethinker just finished a great 3 Part interview of me, one on each book: Proving History (method), Historicity of Jesus (findings), and Obsolete Paradigm (outcome). Good questions, explanations, everything. bsky.app/profile/thef... #JesusMyth #bible #historicity #history

'Being an immortalist liberates us from ghosting ourselves and one another in this life in order to prepare for the next, calling us...to the revolutionary, and, for some, terrifying reality that we are our bodies', says Joseph Bardin. freethinker.co.uk/2026/04/what...