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A Memoir (Macmillan) by Jacinda Ardern. Jacinda Ardern was the 40th prime minister of New Zealand, but the first to become a ...

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This article is a preview from the Summer 2015 edition of New Humanist. You can find out more and subscribe here. Religious disbelief is viewed with alarm in most Arab countries. Two government ...

This year is the 130th anniversary of the death of Charles Bradlaugh, Britain’s first openly atheist MP. Known by his opponents as the “bellowing blasphemer”, Bradlaugh repeatedly dominated the ...

This piece accompanies Marcus Chown's feature on the discovery of cosmic background radiation, from the Spring 2015 edition of New Humanist. Perhaps the most famous accidental discovery of all is ...

This article is a preview from the Winter 2017 edition of New Humanist. How many of us haven’t in some idle moment imagined what the world might be like if it had always been run by women? Not that ...

Educating in Faith: A History of the English Catholic Public School (Sacristy Press) by Mark Cleary My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was ...

After 19 years as a self-proclaimed "extremist", Dan Barker renounced his faith – and he wants everyone to know about it. This article is a preview from the Summer 2016 edition of New Humanist. You ...

“Truth’s a menace, science is a public danger,” says Mustapha Mond, the “Controller” in Aldous Huxley’s iconic dystopian novel Brave New World. “That’s why we so carefully limit the scope of its ...

The reinvention of 'Lupin' for Netflix has been a surprise hit. Why did it take us so long to fall in love with the French master thief? Omar Sy as Assane Diop in 'Lupin'. Credit: Emmanuel ...