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 ...

Meticulously scientific and scientist-friendly, Daniel Dennett is first and foremost a philosopher, and this is the latest foray in his 50-year quest to establish an evolutionary understanding of the ...

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, where he is responsible for overseeing the papermaking industry. Mr Lucas ...

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 ...