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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cynicism is widespread, largely unwilled, and viewed as an affliction. It has no redeeming features, or so we are taught to think. This was not always the case. The word “cynicism” once referred to a ...

Female longing is having a cultural moment and midlife women are taking the limelight. Confounding societal expectations that older women should fade into sexual invisibility or conform to a selfless ...