From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

Back in 2017, a resident-led campaign chased off planning applications for two gas power plants, one of which was to be built ...

Octopuses are having a moment. So are slime moulds and honeybees. Mushrooms are in vogue. After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the ...

New Humanist is a quarterly magazine published by Humanists UK. Book review: The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law. In his new book, Jonathan Sumption explores the different components – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire (Allen Lane) by Priya Satia Priya Satia begins Time’s Monster with a statement: historians, she says, are above all storytellers. At first ...

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 ...

Technology is enabling us to retreat from the outside world. But we should resist the urge – for ourselves and for each other Patrons outside a busy pub in the Yorkshire Dales. Credit: Alamy There ...

Michaela Community School prides itself on its approach to discipline. At this free school in Wembley, north-west London, children walk the corridors in silence and retrieve books from their bags ...

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 ...

Diarists may be ordinary, but they are perhaps rarely normal. This is certainly the case with George Lucas, an obsessive who seems to have written his diaries in character as an idealised version of ...