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 ...

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 ...

Renting in England can be bleak. Many of us have lived, at some point in our lives, in a dingy, drafty, dilapidated flat, whose owner is squeezing as much profit as possible from the arrangement.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I Told You So! Scientists Who Were Ridiculed, Exiled, and Imprisoned for Being Right (St Martin’s Press) by Matt Kaplan We like to think that science is guided by a noble ideal: evidence rules. When ...

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 ...