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• Six voices on how to fight propaganda
• Heroes of free thought! New Humanist's Spring 2026 edition is out now
• Our top 15 stories of 2025
• Five voices on the future of human intelligence
• Stay smart in a changing world! New Humanist's Winter 2025 edition is out now
• Five voices on space and society
• Look up! New Humanist's Autumn 2025 issue on the battle for space is out now
• Time to come together! New Humanist's Summer 2025 issue is out now
• Trump’s assault on science
• The fight back begins! New Humanist's Spring 2025 issue is out now
• The demise of fact-checking
• Will the next Archbishop of Canterbury stand up for victims?
• The fight for the right to die isn't over yet
• Our top 20 stories of 2024
• Our cyborg future? New Humanist's Winter 2024 issue explores the weird beliefs of the tech elites
• China's green paradox
• Can we resist the populist right?
• No more intimidation
• Free Mubarak Bala
• More people are avoiding the news. That's a problem for democracy
• Britain's new era: our Autumn 2024 edition asks, what now?
• A turning point for the right to die?
• A new approach to Palestine
• Drones dropping drugs
• Rise of the fanatics: New Humanist's summer 2024 issue is out now
• The dangers of defining "extremism"
• Remembering Daniel Dennett
• The balance of support for recognising Palestine is shifting
• The west's crisis of confidence in science
• Rethinking science: New Humanist spring 2024 is out now
• The Church of Trump
• Solace for soldiers
• Looking back on 2023: a year of unrest and upheaval
• Baby wars: New Humanist winter 2023 is out now
• How to stop politicians from lying
• The rules of war are just the start
• 'The truth still matters': An interview with Michael Shermer
• The future needs you! New Humanist's autumn 2023 issue is out now
• The geopolitics of compassion
• How advances in organ donation are saving lives
• A million Britons are at risk of disenfranchisement at the next general election
• Church and state: New Humanist summer 2023 out now
• Criminalisation of abortion endangers women and girls – including in the UK
• Malaria vaccine: A scientific victory
• An assault on our rights
• How have the protests changed Iran?
• A festival of big ideas
• Better, faster, stronger: New Humanist spring 2023 out now
• Tracking the anti-abortion backlash
• Policing the internet
• A succession of popes
• "The romantic mystique is a force for social conservatism"
• Looking back on 2022: blind faith comes in many forms
• Deputy Editor job listing, New Humanist magazine
• Evolution revolution: New Humanist winter 2022 out now
• Identity crisis in Northern Ireland?
• Untying the knot
• Women, life, freedom
• "People are back to comparing themselves with others"
• Is it too late to end the Congo's "forever war"?
• Making sense of war: New Humanist autumn 2022 out now
• Losing our humanities
• India's new Emergency
• "I’ve come to see delusions as imaginative creations"
• The dark side of progress: New Humanist summer 2022 is out now
• Deep fakes: the new front in the disinformation wars
• Will the killing of a schoolteacher have any effect on Pakistan's blasphemy laws?
• Turning our backs on the vulnerable
• Playground for the soul
• White fright in America
• Will the cyborgs soon rise up?
• Q&A: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• Talking to the future: New Humanist spring 2022 is out now
• Tree-planting cools the climate, but the strategy has limits
• Top 20 of 2021
• A world in which everyone sounds the same
• Humans: a special species? New Humanist winter 2021 is out now
• A funny old island
• Predators in the Church
• Black resistance and racist policing w/Adam Elliott-Cooper
• (M)otherhood and choice w/Pragya Agarwal
• Quantum physics and philosophy, w/ Carlo Rovelli
• Why our minds need the wild w/Lucy Jones
• Learning from our ancestors w/ Alice Roberts
• How statues can bring us together
• Want to become a space weather monitor?
• Are our intelligence agencies intelligent enough?
• Who controls our bodies? The autumn 2021 New Humanist
• Why is an anti-homophobia bill being fought by the Vatican?
• Protecting our human rights
• "The tentacles of the law reach deep into Hong Kong society"
• "It was a double whammy of a blow to the Catholic Church in Ireland"
• Can we bottle the scent of happiness?
• The conspiracy takeover: The summer 2021 New Humanist
• Sinophobia must not become Britain's "new normal"
• The right to die
• How to fix the internet w/ Chris Bail
• Writing and Recovery, w/ Michael Rosen
• The Cosmos & Us w/ Jo Marchant
• Deporting Black Britons w/ Luke de Noronha
• Activism & Belief w/ Rosemary Hancock
• Desire in the age of consent w/Katherine Angel
• "Wollstonecraft thought that we live in a hall of mirrors"
• Can we escape our national myths? The spring 2021 New Humanist
• A boost for antibiotic resistance
• "Many of us will experience disability in our lives"
• Mother and baby homes: when sorry isn't enough
• Wollstonecraft in relief
• Top 20 of 2020
• Looking back in anger at ‘Cool Britannia’ w/ Jason Arday  
• Escaping the logic of work, w/ Mareile Pfannebecker
• Sensuous knowledge and black feminism, w/ Minna Salami
• The symbolic power of charity, w/ Jon Dean
• Taking sex robots seriously w/ Kate Devlin
• Faith, fraternity and the Orange Order, w/ Joe Webster
• Age of anger: The winter New Humanist
• Let's close the loopholes used by illegal faith schools
• Will a teen programmer become the first Millenial saint?
• Can diamonds ever be truly ethical?
• "Digital monsters are our contemporary folklore"
• "We needed a book about humanism as an active approach to life"
• "Liberalism's future now rests on a single question"
• "Vaccine deniers aren't ignorant"
• Democracy under threat: The autumn New Humanist
• From sea to table
• Insulting the Buddha
• Leaving the black church
• "We need to make sure that lives are valued fairly"
• Atheist Mubarak Bala may face a death sentence
• What makes us who we are? The summer 2020 New Humanist
• Scotland to decriminalise blasphemy
• Video fatigue
• "Men are biologically fragile"
• "Reading trans memoirs I was struck by the absence of any sense of history"
• A new twist in the human genome story
• Read in case of panic
• Climate crisis: The spring 2020 New Humanist
• Democracy and its discontents
• Huawei and new frontiers of war
• Faith schools are continuing to fail children
• Best of 2019: long reads
• Best of 2019: culture
• Best of 2019: interviews and columns
• How to argue better: The winter 2019 New Humanist
• The racial bias of algorithms
• Why we need serious action on antibiotic resistance
• A welcome change in Northern Ireland
• The New Humanist's top Christmas reads
• Ten reasons why you should read the relaunched New Humanist
• Christian newspaper must not use the word "Allah", rules Malaysian court, and other stories - our morning round-up
• Muslim Brotherhood banned in Egypt, and other stories - our morning round-up
• Greek man murdered by neo-Nazis, and other stories - our morning round-up
• Fighting discrimination in school admissions
• Sunday Assembly kicked out of deconsecrated church venue
• Drop blasphemy charges against Sanal Edamaruku
• RA Podcast March 2013
• Race for the Papacy 2013 Sweepstake
• What's in a name?
• Taliban tendency
• Rotten to the core
• Speak up for humanity
• New year, same drama
• Blunkett's folly
• Getting correctness right
• The scandal of our time
• Educate, don't indoctrinate
• None of our business?
• Misplaced charity
• "A bit dodgy"
• Creationism Expounded
• Straw Dogs