The Southern Poverty Law Centre, a US civil rights group, has some background information on the man arrested for shooting dead three people at Jewish centres in Kansas yesterday. Frazier…
We were interested to note this story concerning the Crime and Misconduct and Other Legislation Amendment Bill currently passing through the legislature in Queensland, Australia. Not the usual ground covered…
The Prime Minister tells the Downing St Easter reception that Christ invented his flagship policy
As voting begins, the BJP's Narendra Modi leads the polls. These are anxious times for Indian Muslims, reports Samira Shackle
While I’m sure the Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is a man of many talents, one skill that has always stood out from our vantage point here at New Humanist is…
As part of our Apostasy Project ex-pastor Clair explains how she went from speaking in tongues to free-wheeling round Europe on a mission of discovery
Saudi Arabia is hardly known for moderate policy making. Law in the theocratic kingdom requires that all citizens be Muslims (an overseas national seeking Saudi citizenship must convert), and religious…
The OCR examination board has announced that it will not longer permit schools to edit or redact questions appearing on its papers. The announcement follows investigations by the National Secular…
How do you police the internet? It’s a question that most governments are confronting in one way or another, from America’s mass surveillance programme, to Britain’s sentences for Twitter trolls,…
Neil deGrasse Tyson's remake of Carl Sagan's classic series is worthy of the hype – it even introduced my six-year-old to the vastness of the universe, says Dale DeBakcsy
There are currently around 125 million women alive in the world who have undergone some form of female genital mutilation (FGM), a procedure in which female genitalia are altered or…
The news that 14 people in Pakistan face execution for blasphemy highlights the ongoing use of such laws by illiberal states
Chris Stedman, Assistant Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University and author of the book Faitheist, has a lovely interview on his blog with Nick Sagan, son of Carl and his second…
The National Secular Society's Keith Porteous Wood argues that the widely-hailed Pontiff has failed to address his Church's greatest scandal
Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells the story of a young prince who avenges the murder of his father, the king, by killing the uncle who took his place as monarch. Its double-crossing…