The change is not about banning groups. Instead, it seems to be mainly aimed at ensuring that the government doesn’t ...

Humanism lost a titan of the movement in April when the American philosopher Daniel Dennett died at the age of 82. One of the so-called “Four Horsemen of New Atheism”, along with Richard Dawkins, ...

The US vetoed a recent bid from the Palestinian Authority for UN recognition – but western rhetoric is changing ...

Four metres up the path, I hold up a peppercorn to represent Mercury; four more metres and a dry-roast peanut for Venus. You ...

'The Death of the Deer' (1867) by Gustave Courbet, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie in Besançon. Credit: Bridgeman You have a struggling mammal in your mouth. You clamp your teeth into his ...

The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society “Winter’s Gibbet” in Northumberland marks the site of a murder and ...

The view from Primrose Hill. Credit: Elissar Haidar via Unsplash “Imagine this is the Sun,” I say, holding up an orange. I am at the foot of Primrose Hill in London with 20-odd people. They have ...

The majority of British people are in favour of the death penalty in extreme cases. But its use would fundamentally alter our society “Winter’s Gibbet” in Northumberland marks the site of a murder and ...

A scene from Wang Bing's documentary, The rise of China is one of the most remarkable stories of our times, and perhaps one which will define the 21st century. The country, with the second-largest ...

If science has a native tongue, it is mathematics. Equations capture, precisely, the relationships among the elements of a system; they allow us to pose questions and calculate answers. Numerically, ...

Gen Z are given a great deal of credit these days. Born between 1997 and 2012, they’re the generation with their heads screwed on, trusted to sort out the mess the rest of us have made of the world.