‘Yids, spicks and spades’
It's Martin Rowson gone mad!
Human Rights & Ethics
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
Paranoia or prejudice?
Eliane Glaser reports on the perceived rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. Howard Jacobson and Brian Winston respond.
A very French affair
Vera Lustig unwraps the hijab debate
‘Without anti-Semitism Sharon would be impossible’
Brian Winston on anti-semitism
‘There is an obduracy in anti-Semitism’
"It is a source of great comic consolation to Jews to recognise their paranoia and make light of it." Howard Jacobson on anti-Semitism
Animal Wrongs
Would you eat test-tube lamb? asks Finn Bowring
Take it on the chin
Having banned the wearing of Muslim headscarves in schools, the French government is now considering excluding beards if worn for religious reasons. Sally Feldman wonders what other reasons there might…