You shall go to the ball
Misogynist trap, soppy fantasy, or universal truth? Sally Feldman waves a magic wand over Cinderella
Human Rights & Ethics
From Juke Joints to Jamie Callum
Caspar Melville goes in search of the spirit of jazz
Burning issue
Each week there are over 2,000 cases of arson in the UK, and the numbers are rising steadily. Mike Presdee analyses the nature of and motivation for this crime of…
After the Gulag
Laura Piacentini explores the paradoxes of Russia's prisons since the fall of the Soviet Union
Press for change
Despite the draconian restrictions placed on the lives of women in Iran, their position is gradually transforming thanks to a vibrant and varied womens media, say Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle…
‘Yids, spicks and spades’
It's Martin Rowson gone mad!
Blunkett’s folly
This might be one of the last issues of New Humanist you read. Our particular brand of God bashing could soon get us in quite a lot of trouble.
Getting correctness right
Political correctness has gone mad, declared the Leader of the Opposition Michael Howard in a recent speech.
Tales from the city
Jon Binnie wonders whether gays really should be glad to be global
Assault on freedom
Nick Cohen deplores the sinister absurdity of Blunkett's latest proposal for dealing with religious hatred