The girl sat while her grandmother stood nearby, her face drawn and her eyes sunken. For a while, she waved the pinwheel and ...

But Scotland has, in recent years, written itself a new story in which Scottish people are generally welcoming to the outside ...

But these days, while metal at its best still sounds delightfully evil, the metal culture is pushing back against the truly ...

During riots outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, in response to news that an Ethiopian asylum seeker, Hadush Kebatu, was arrested for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, a group of women appeared.

When we discovered the regulators were only testing a few spots on the river a few times a year, we set up a citizen science project, training locals to test the water quality near them on a weekly ...

Is the UK still a tolerant country? In the Autumn 2026 issue of New Humanist we ask comic Stewart Lee, Green politician Caroline Lucas, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Irish peace ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

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 ...

The 1990s are remembered for Britpop and New Labour. But it was also a time of inequality and racism. In this sixth episode of With Reason, we talk to Jason Arday about his new book Cool Britannia and ...

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 ...