Stewart Lee is an award-winning comedian, writer, director and filmmaker. His new stand-up show, “Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf ...

This article is a sneak peek from New Humanist‘s Autumn 2026 issue on how to fight hate, out on 20th August. Sign up to our free newsletter to hear when it lands. The Odyssey is a Christopher Nolan ...

Stewart Lee is an award-winning comedian, writer, director and filmmaker. His new stand-up show, “Stewart Lee vs The Man-Wulf”, sees Lee morph from a handwringing liberal to a right-wing shock jock ...

Tse explores similar themes in City Like Water (also translated by Bruce), the first and longest piece in her 2020 short ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...

A scene from the Jack in the Green festivities in Hastings. © Alamy As I descend into the Old Town of Hastings, locals drape luscious garlands and leafy bunting from ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism, is often criticised for using religious identity and nationalist sentiment to assert the cultural supremacy of the Hindu majority in India, undermining the secular ...

In the early 1970s, I was a pupil at a Protestant primary school in working-class west Belfast. Considering the mayhem that was raging nearby – the rioting, bombings and shootings – the teachers did a ...

Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s prescient genius produced a series of classic stories, collected together as I, Robot, in which intelligent machines are confronted with existential issues. However, even ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown’s feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...