My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was “the Catholic Eton”. I am oddly disappointed to learn from Mark Cleary’s new book that four other ...

It was four years after the storming of the Bastille that the new revolutionary government really established the framework ...

Stephen Fry is an actor, comedian, writer and presenter. He is also a patron of Humanists UK and a vocal advocate for mental ...

We often discuss how strongmen rise to power. In "How Tyrants Fall", Marcel Dirsus looks at the other side of the story ...

Labour’s feud over child benefits points to a deeper question: how to balance strategy with doing the right thing Labour has tied itself in knots over the two-child benefit cap. Credit: Alamy ...

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Is there a narcissist in your life? It’s the question posed time and again across countless books, websites and social media posts. How to spot a narcissist, how to handle them, what they want – the ...

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A tribute to the late Caspar Melville – writer, musicologist, and former editor of New Humanist. Now that I am in my late eighties, I have sadly become used to losing good friends of a similar age.

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Hugo de Burgh is a media theorist and Professor of the Study of Journalism and Director of the China Media Centre at the University of Westminster, which he set up in January 2005 ...