New Humanist: Ideas for godless people

Articles by subject: government

What's wrong with university? Laurie Taylor interviews Stefan Collini (by Laurie Taylor, March/April 2012 )
Amid the research targets and funding reforms our once world-leading centres for higher learning have lost their way. Laurie Taylor meets Stefan Collini, the Cambridge don mounting a fight back
Q&A: Tom Watson (by Editorial Staff, March/April 2012 )
The MP for West Bromwich East and Deputy Chair of the Labour Party Tom Watson has made his name as the relentless pursuer of tabloid hackers as a member of the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, even comparing James Murdoch to a mafia boss. We hacked into his private thoughts to find out what makes him tick
Count yourself out (by Winston Fletcher, March/April 2011 )
Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort
Because you're worth it? (by Ben Fine, September/October 2010 )
It can cure cancer, make you rich and even foster world peace, claim its advocates. But what proof is there, asks Ben Fine, that social capital has any benefits at all?
Farewell Gordon (by Francis Beckett, September/October 2010 )
Francis Beckett reviews two books telling the inside story of the implosion of New Labour
Unsafe havens (by Rahila Gupta, January/February 2009 )
The Government is planning tougher penalties for men who use trafficked prostitutes. But who is helping the women themselves? Rahila Gupta uncovers a distributing trend
Faith healers (by Edna Fernandes, September/October 2008 )
Peace through religious understanding is an admirable goal, argues Edna Fernandes. But who should be paying for it?
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