English Humanists

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 150. Chapters: Bertrand Russell, Douglas Adams, Richard Dawkins, Francis Crick, Thomas More, Roger Penrose, A. J. Ayer, Aldous Huxley, Stephen Fry, Terry Pratchett, E. P. Thompson, E. M. Forster, Ronnie Barker, Michael Foot, Harry Kroto, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Tom Baker, Julian Huxley, Ken Livingstone, Christopher Hitchens, Arthur C. Clarke, Pat Condell, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Antony Flew, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Miller, Evan Harris, Arthur Creech Jones, Richard Doll, Brian Cox, John Fowles, Jane Asher, Marc Sinden, Claire Rayner, Charles Bradlaugh, George Melly, Roy W. Brown, Peter Atkins, Nicolas Walter, George Holyoake, Frederick James Gould, Dylan Evans, Linda Smith, Laurie Taylor, George Neil Jenkins, Anthony Haden-Guest, Raymond Tallis, Simon Blackburn, Charles Watts, Howard Williams, Mary Honeyball, Charles Albert Watts, Alan Brownjohn, Faith Brook. Excerpt: Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who is currently a member of the Labour Party. During his political career, he has twice held the leading political role in London local government, firstly as Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and secondly as the first elected Mayor of London, a post he held from its creation in 2000 until 2008. He also served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent East between 1987 and 2001. He is currently standing as the Labour Party candidate in the London mayoral election, 2012. Born into a working class family in Lambeth, London, Livingstone worked as a cancer research technician before getting involved in politics, becoming a Labour Party member in 1968. He was elected to represent Norwood at the Greater London Council in 1973, before transferring to represent Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1977, and then to Paddington in 1981. That year he a...