Classless broadcasting: Benefits Street
The controversial documentary series Benefits Street reveals everything that’s gone wrong with Channel 4, argues Mark Fisher
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Book review: George Orwell: English Rebel by Robert Colls
This article is from the Winter 2013 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. Robert Colls’s George Orwell: English Rebel claims to be the first book about the…
Book review: No Place Like Home by Judah Passow
The most pious may be the most photogenic, but both religious and secular Jews are thriving in 21st-century Britain, writes Anthony Clavane
Northern Irish theatre cancels play after pressure from Christian politician
A theatre in Co Antrim has cancelled two performances of a “blasphemous” play following complaints from a Christian politician. The play, entitled “The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)”,…
The return of garden cities
The Deputy Prime Minister is enthusiastic, but the Mayor of London is opposed. Are new towns mere folly, or do they offer a humanist solution to the housing crisis?
What is it like to be an African-American atheist
A short documentary explores the experience of being an atheist in a society that equates blackness with being a believer
What Norwich City taught me about life
This piece is from the Winter 2013 edition of New Humanist. Subscribe here. Whenever I’m asked for a short biography, for a talk or a panel appearance, I always send…
Out of the ashes
A striking new documentary about Bosnia asks what happens to ordinary people when their lives are torn apart by war
Book review: Pauperland by Jeremy Seabrook
This article is a preview from the Winter 2013 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. In Pauperland Jeremy Seabrook sensitively chronicles attitudes towards the poor from the…
Book review: The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
This article is a preview from the Winter 2013 issue of New Humanist magazine. You can subscribe here. How does a cataclysmic event play out across generations of one family?…