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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. To read the rest of the series, subscribe now.

Jordan Peterson on stage at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship in 2023. Credit: ARC Forum/CC 1.0 The west has fallen. We need bigger families, closed borders and, most importantly, a return to ...

Is the UK still a tolerant country? In the Autumn 2026 issue of New Humanist we ask comic Stewart Lee, Green politician Caroline Lucas, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Irish peace ...

Rowan Williams (left) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002–2012. Andrew Copson (right) is a humanist leader and author. He is chief executive of ...

This article is a sneak peek from New Humanist‘s Autumn 2026 issue on how to fight hate, out on 20th August. Sign up to our free newsletter to hear when it lands. The Odyssey is a Christopher Nolan ...