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Lord Kinnock has spent half a century as a Labour politician. Now he is calling on the party to reclaim its humanist principles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is a preview from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. I’d arranged to meet the sorceress at 4pm, but I was running late. Hurrying past ...

Ready for more? We bring you 12 more faiths and their foibles in God Trumps Part II. This article was brought to you by New Humanist, a quarterly journal of ideas, science and culture. To support our ...

In rallying in opposition to marriage reform, religious campaigners claim that their arguments are grounded in reason and common sense. But take a closer look and you'll spot the homophobia, says ...

Of course we should love, honour and cherish our species, says Mary Midgley. But should we have to worship it too? Does the term “humanism” really stand for a new and better form of religion? If so, ...

The 'Super-K' detector is built 3,000 feet down in a mine beneath Hida in Japan. This is one of its most famous images. Marcus Chown explains This picture of the Sun is hardly high-definition. But, in ...

This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. The humanist approach to life is sometimes seen as a very recent thing – the product ...

From the latrine to the loo, the pissoir to the powder room, Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of toilets How would you fancy peeing into a shiny brass tuba – or splashing into the face of ...