Veteran journalist Barry Duke, who edited the world-renowned atheist magazine, The Freethinker, for 24 years, needs your help.

In January 2022, he was summarily sacked, apparently for his deep-seated hostility towards religion and the manner in which he attacked it.

The publishers of the magazine suddenly went "woke", adopted a politically correct stance and launched a new website that only served to anger devoted followers of the old Freethinker site who abandoned it in droves.

You can read the whole sorry saga his new website, The Angry Atheist

He is now in dire financial straits.

Born in South Africa in 1947, he settled in the UK in 1973, where he became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement and gay rights organisations.

A militant atheist, he joined the National Secular Society (NSS) and was a co-founder in 1979 of the Gay Humanist Group which changed its name to the Gay & Lesbian Humanist Association in 1987.

In 2017 he was handed a Lifetime Achievement award by the NSS for his "spirited opposition to religious intolerance and irrationality" in his roles as a free speech advocate and his work as former editor of The Freethinker magazine. He now administers the The Pink Triangle Trust site for the PTT, a UK-based charity.

In 2017 he was married to his partner of 25 years, Marcus Robinson, in Gibraltar. The couple live in Benidorm, Spain with their mini Pinscher Fifi.