Q&A: Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts’ career as a science broadcaster has flourished with a series of popular documentaries like The Incredible Human Journey, Are We Still Evolving? and Prehistoric Autopsy. She is also…
Culture
A reasonable life
Matthew Adams gets inside the mind of the President of the Rationalist Association, Sir Jonathan Miller
Swan Song
Laurie Taylor tries the ballet
Ballads of unsuccess
A new collection confirms James Fenton as one of our very best poets. Matthew Adams meets him
Lessons unlearnt
With its cast of blood-thirsty mullahs, equivocating politicians, apologetic liberals and artists requiring police protection, Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the fatwa years couldn’t be more timely, says Kenan Malik
Jam & Jerusalem
Underestimate the Women's Institute at your peril, says Sally Feldman
No nonsense: remembering Winston Fletcher
Laurie Taylor, Chair of the Rationalist Association, remembers his fellow trustee, who died on 4 September 2012
Book review: Why We Build by Rowan Moore
Hugh Pearman enjoys a constructive history of architecture
Book review: Radical by Maajid Nawaz
Alom Shaha admires the honesty of a former Islamist
Saving our universities? New Humanist interviews AC Grayling
As AC Grayling’s New College of the Humanities enrols its first intake, Caspar Melville asks our most prominent humanist what prompted his most controversial venture