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

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

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

It was a similar story with plant life: crops selected for greater production (wheat and barley were two of the first) were often in proximity to their wild relatives and exchanged genes. This entry ...

The British ethical societies, forerunners of Humanists UK, emerged in the 1880s. As the London Ethical Society put it in its first report in 1887, they offered a basis for “well-doing and well-being” ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Autumn 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. In a 2008 article in Wired magazine entitled “The End of Theory”, Chris Anderson ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Religious disbelief is viewed with alarm in most Arab countries. Two government ...

The world wide web is the most prolific incubator of conspiracy theories in human history. For the last few decades, it’s enabled users to spread their wildest, most inflammatory ideas across 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 ...

A crucifix hangs on the wall of a Catholic school in Warwickshire in the UK (Alamy Stock Photo) To anyone trying to navigate it for the first time, England’s education system can seem like an old ship ...