The former Archbishop of Canterbury and the head of Humanists UK discuss the growing influence of religious nationalism ...

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

The Odyssey is a Christopher Nolan movie. Like Dunkirk, it shows exhausted soldiers on a beach, desperate to get home. Like ...

In the Autumn 2026 issue of New Humanist we ask comic Stewart Lee, Green politician Caroline Lucas, former Archbishop of ...

If you feel pressure about your body, you’re not alone. Women have always had it bad – but now the health and beauty industries are coming for men, too. And the pressures are constantly deepening. In ...

Tourette syndrome hit the headlines this year following the success of I Swear, a film following the life story of activist John Davidson. The film picked up two trophies at the Baftas in February, ...

Epstein hosted a dinner at Harvard in 2004, with attendees including evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers (centre right). Credit: Alamy Stock Photo It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the ...

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 ...

In his 1976 debut volume, Richard Dawkins pioneered the concept of the “selfish gene” – the idea that genes propagate themselves through whatever mechanisms necessary, thus explaining phenomena such ...

On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out amongst the world religions as uniquely not awful. 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 ...

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 ...