New Humanist

Most women, at one time or another, have lamented that all the attractive men are taken.

The midlife crisis has long been regarded as a peculiarly male affliction; a man hits 50, buys something with an engine to be “restored” or amasses an alarming collection of old BMX bikes that he insists are “investments”.

War broke out while Maria Reva was writing her latest novel set in Ukraine – so she incorporated it into the storyline.

Self Defence – A Myth-Busting Guide to Immune Health (Vintage Publishing) by Daniel Davis I can’t quite place when I first heard that vitamin C was good for the immune system, but I know I was young.

Credit: Tetra Images / Alamy Stock Photo The story of cancer touches countless human lives.

Artistic representation of a man in a cryonics chamber.

Credit: Alamy Stock Photo A pile of vinyl records sits on the counter in my sister’s kitchen, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours on the top.

Image credit: Nils Huenerfuerst I consider myself a tech optimist up to the point where I have to explain to students or audiences about the dark side of AI.

Illustration by Maksym Filipenko The morning after another large-scale Russian air attack on Kyiv, I saw a girl of about five or six years old on the subway holding a toy pinwheel.

Illustration by LeBlue This article by former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas is part of our Voices series on how to fight hate, from the Autumn 2026 issue of New Humanist.

Credit: Pictorial Press / Alamy Stock Photo In 1992, Lemmy and his band Motörhead collaborated with Ozzy Osbourne on the song “I Ain’t No Nice Guy”.

The River Wye.

A protest against undocumented migration in Aberdeen, September 2025.

Trans activist Nomi Ramirez casts her vote in the referendum.

“I believe that every time I challenge, I am making a difference.”

Credit: Olly Hunter Q: My brother supports a political party that I find racist.

The aftermath of a strike I come from a village in Pakistan, on the border with Afghanistan.

“Keeping far-right parties out of power does not make them disappear but it does stop them doing their worst” This article by Daniel Trilling, author of If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable, is part of our seri…

A snippet from “The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke” (1855-64), which took Dadd nearly a decade to complete.

“The Big Apple has long been a gateway for immigrants to the US.”