In every chapter we find the author in a different bothy (11 in Scotland, one in Wales), usually escaping some undetailed ...

From atheist YouTuber to praying for divine revelation, what has happened to Alex O’Connor?

Back in 2017, a resident-led campaign chased off planning applications for two gas power plants, one of which was to be built ...

Syrian refugees in London after they arrived from Calais via the “Safe Passage” legal route (Alamy Stock Photo) On a warm afternoon last July, Ahmed went back in time. He and I exited the train at ...

The great Buddha statue in Nha Trang, Vietnam by Petr Ruzicka On paper, Buddhism looks pretty good. It has a philosophical subtlety married to a stated devotion to tolerance that makes it stand out ...

Will future sex tech be more inclusive? What’s at stake in the design and distribution of sex robots? And what role could they play in our relationships? In this second episode of our podcast "With ...

Alamy Stock Photo My wife and I tied the knot in 2017, four years after same-sex weddings began to be legally recognised in England and Wales. When we made the decision to walk down the aisle, I felt ...

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

Octopuses are having a moment. So are slime moulds and honeybees. Mushrooms are in vogue. After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the ...

God: An Anatomy (Pan Macmillan) by Francesca Stavrakopoulou. We don’t know his real name. In early inscriptions it appears as Yhw, Yhwh, or simply Yh; but we don’t know how it was spoken. He has come ...