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British Humanist Association and Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats
Chair: Arnie Gibbons.
The British Humanist Association and HSLD are delighted to welcome Professor Richard Dawkins to Bournemouth. A meeting open to everyone, followed by book signing.
Monday 21st September, 18.15 - 19.30
Premier Inn Bournemouth Central, Gallery Suite
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The Liberal Democrats are holding their party conference in Bournemouth this week.
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The Liberal Democrats have won the seat of Cheadle in a Westminster by-election.
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Nick Clegg has denied senior defence on intelligence figures' warnings that the Liberal Democrats' plans to hold the intelligence forces accountable could threaten national security.
Party eschews formal manifesto in favour of local showcase of policies.
Lib Dem environment spokesman Chris Huhne argues that nuclear power is a tried, tested and failed technology and is not a solution to Britain's energy needs.
The Populus poll for The Times puts the Lib Dems on 20 per cent, up two percentage points on last month, with Labour down on the same number on 39 per cent.
Male voters and Liberal Democrats are generally more supportive of Ecuador's decisions to grant Julian Assange asylum, according to new polling.
Some faith schools constitute an act of child abuse because of the way they rid children of freedom, Professor Richard Dawkins has said.
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Physicist, author, and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili has been appointed as the next President of the British Humanist Association. He succeeds journalist, broadcaster, and social justice campaigner Polly Toynbee to take up the position from January 2013 and will serve a three-year term as the Association’s eleventh president.
A proposal in the House of Commons to give legal recognition to humanist marriages in England and Wales has been halted through the last minute intervention of the Attorney General.
The BHA responds to Tory MP Tony Baldry's comments on humanist wedding: "In spite of some people's desperate scaremongering, the amendment does not open up legal recognition for any new weddings other than humanist ones."
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
Families will pay tribute and remember those lost to MRSA and healthcare associated infections at Westminster Abbey on Thursday 13th June 2013
Following the great success of the BSIA's Information Destruction Conference and Exhibition in May 2012, we are pleased to annouce that the event is returning again in June 2013. This one-day conference and exhibition is aimed at key decision makers in organisations that carry out the secure destruction of confidential material.
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