Equal in love?
Peter Tatchell says it is time to end the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships
Human Rights & Ethics
Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais on his new shows, shock comedy and why God loves him really
Book review: Crooked Talk by Jonathon Green
Michael Bywater finds that Jonathon Green is the aceman of lexicographers, and that's no honey-fuggle
Book review: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
Richard Wilson is impressed by a new book on the collapse of the Congo
A friend to the friendless
In the July/August 2011 issue of New Humanist, Richard Smyth assessed the role of prison chaplains. Here David Silver, who is serving a life sentence in HMP Gartree, offers his…
Captive audience
Sympathetic ear or religious recruiter - what’s a prison chaplain for? Richard Smyth finds out
Demonising Muslims
When does criticism of religion cross the line into racism? Paul Sims investigates
Just say ‘No’ to Nadine Dorries
The Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is pushing abstinence and attacking abortion rights. What young people really need is proper sex education, argues Zoe Margolis
Diagnosis evil
Simon Baron-Cohen wants to redefine how we think of human cruelty. Caspar Melville meets him
Book review: How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Jenny Bunker enjoys Caitlin Moran's flippant feminism