Conference


sunshine outside brought directly in to the conference room. Tim has captured and demonstrated the crucial importance of the media as a device for getting our Humanist message to the Scottish people. Next was a lively quintet of deliveries by members from the floor of the conference, five minute topics brought alive and pitched in such a way as to provoke, to inform, to cause laughter, to stir a response and questions. Under the umbrella title Humanists and Dogma, I took to the stage and got things going with my interpretation of what the HSS needs to be thinking and doing about latent Humanist dogma and the challenge that environmentalism brings to our folio of policies and commitments. Then, following me, Legalising Substances to protect our children by Max Cruickshank was an intensely counter-intuitive way of getting across to his audience the problems brought home about drug taking and the law in Scotland relating to young people.


Blue collar Humanism was an invitation by Geoffrey Armitage to see what Humanists are and do in


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