Article Club: May 2025

Article Club is where the Sunday Assembly London community read a diverse range of articles, share them with like-minded people and deal with our anxiety that we aren’t reading books.

This was our 69th meeting but it’s never too late to join! Just like at our assemblies, we love welcoming new members and their unique opinions.

It was also the first meeting after Article Club’s 10th anniversary (10th May 2025), so thank you to everyone who joined us as we embark on our next decade!

The two articles we discussed

New York’s Promising Experiment in Making the Subways Safer
Nicole Gelinas – New York Times, 14 August 2024

Why public schoolboys like me and Boris Johnson aren’t fit to run our country
Richard Beard – The Guardian, 8 August 2021

How Article Club works

1. We meet every six weeks or so in the National Theatre building in Central London by the river. We go for the round seats in the Lyttelton Theatre bar on the first floor.

2. We vote in advance and pick two articles from a short list to read before we meet. Usually one relates to politics/current affairs and the other to history, culture or science.

3. We talk about each one for around half an hour. The beauty of Article Club is that we can think more deeply about the broader themes of a topic, and how well the article gets to grips with them.

4. We each give a score out of 10 for the articles that have been discussed.

5. We set the date for the next Article Club and sometimes adjourn to the pub.

Our next three Article Clubs will be:

• Thursday 26 June at 7:30pm
• Thursday 7 August at 7:30pm
• Thursday 18 September at 7:30pm

And to meet more of the Sunday Assembly London community while learning about a new or familiar topic, you’re always welcome at our Sunday Assemblies too!