Even in prison, Belarusian dissident women haven’t given up. The future of the country may still be in their hands ...

New Humanist is looking for a freelance designer to produce a suite of marketing materials for the magazine. We're keen to ...

As Reform UK top the polls, Labour moves right and Tommy Robinson leads huge nationalist marches, it is easy to despair. But ...

Frontline Poets (River Books) by Joe Freeman and Aung Naing Soe. Talk of male anatomy was the last thing I exp ...

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 vast domain of space is easy to ignore. It’s up there, invisible, while our headlines focus on billionaire rocket launches. But every single one of us has a vested interest. We need to act to ...

For many generations in societies shaped by Christianity, monogamy has been the almost undisputed champion of relationship norms. In Britain and the US, it has been held up as the dominant – really ...

The reinvention of 'Lupin' for Netflix has been a surprise hit. Why did it take us so long to fall in love with the French master thief? Omar Sy as Assane Diop in 'Lupin'. Credit: Emmanuel ...

The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain (Bloomsbury Academic) by Callum G. Brown, David Nash and Charlie Lynch The modern humanist tradition has regularly published books about what humanism is and ...

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 ...

Historian Jonathan Israel's magisterial three-volume history of the 'Radical Enlightenment' is the intellectual version of a JCB, ripping up the terrain around him. Kenan Malik follows him down the ...

Satire today is dominated by a narrow elite. No longer a threat to authority, it is a means for the establishment to protect itself. Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, illustrated as part of the set for the ...