Dawkins’ new book impresses the kids
With his new book The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins wants to introduce children to the wonders of science. He gets a resounding thumbs up from Manjit Kumar's resident young…
Culture
The cutting season: Female Genital Mutilation and the UK
Over the school holidays hundreds of British girls are taken abroad to undergo a procedure that is internationally recognised as a violation of their human rights. Alice Onwordi reports
The last Crusade
The claim that Christianity provides the bedrock of Western culture might serve the interests of extremists, but it is a betrayal of a far more complex history, argues Kenan Malik
A life in eight ads
Sam Delaney measures out his days in iconic adverts
Brain rot
What is neuroscientist Susan Greenfield on about? asks Sally Feldman
Book review: The Tyranny of Choice by Renata Salecl
Nina Power appreciates a sharp critique of consumerism
Book review: Barefoot into Cyberspace by Becky Hogge
Bill Thompson embraces the digital revolution
Book review: Humanity 2.0 by Steve Fuller
Angela Saini is frustrated by Steve Fuller
Quiz: a tea-time teaser
Rational thought is required in the humanist tearooms, in Quizmaster Chris Maslanka's latest New Humanist quiz
Book review: Collected Ghost Stories by MR James
Stephanie Merritt has some rational praise for MR James's classic tales of the supernatural