New Humanist is a quarterly magazine, published by the Rationalist Association in the UK , that focuses on culture, news, philosophy , and science from a sceptical perspective.
12-526: The New Humanist has been in print for more than 131 years; starting out life as Watts's Literary Guide , founded by C. A. Watts in November 1885. It later became The Literary Guide and Rationalist Review (1894–1954), Humanist (1956–1971) and the New Humanist in 1972. Notable columnists have included Laurie Taylor , Simon Hoggart and Sally Feldman. In 2003 Hazhir Teimourian, a reviewer for
24-652: A humanist celebrant . Taylor's son, Matthew , is Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation . Taylor has a particular interest in criminology . He was one of the founder members of the National Deviancy Conference . A popular author writing on the media and fame, he has published widely in criminology. Perhaps his best-known early work was the book co-written with Stanley Cohen : Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Everyday Life . The book arose from research into
36-587: A direct grant grammar and now an independent school, Taylor trained as an actor at Rose Bruford College , Sidcup , associated with Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop in Stratford, London . He was also a teacher at the Forest Hill comprehensive school for boys. After earning degrees in sociology and psychology, as a mature student, at Birkbeck College and the University of Leicester , Taylor joined
48-598: Is divorced from his third wife (whom he married in December 1988 in Camden), radio producer Cathie Mahoney who works on Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4. He was previously married to journalist Anna Coote, a former deputy editor of the New Statesman , who has also been associated with various public organisations. He is now married to Sally Feldman, journalist and former editor of Radio Four's Woman's Hour and currently
60-453: Is the presenter of In Confidence , a series of one-hour in-depth interviews with public figures. Stop The Week Stop the Week is a British radio discussion programme chaired by Robert Robinson , which ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992. The BBC Radio's Current Affairs Department decided that it wanted a programme that would act as a bookend to Monday morning's Start
72-511: The Week with Richard Baker , which had been running for about four years. Stop the Week ran on a Saturday evening, and its brief was to be a weekly magazine of satire , topical guests and music. The Hungarian émigré Michael Ember , also the producer of Start the Week , was chosen as the producer. The programme was presented by Robert Robinson who had just ended a three-year run on the Today programme. The last show went out at 6:50pm on
84-546: The department of sociology at the University of York , eventually becoming a professor at that institution. He is retired from York. Taylor is sometimes thought to be the model for Howard Kirk in Malcolm Bradbury 's novel The History Man although Bradbury and Taylor had not met at the time the book was written. Taylor was then a member of the Trotskyist political party International Socialists . Taylor
96-635: The documentary Flesh and Blood: The Story of the Krays . Since 1998, Taylor has regularly presented the discussion programme Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 , a series mainly devoted to the social sciences. In addition, he is known for his long-running and mainly humorous column in the Times Higher Education Supplement as well as writing for the New Humanist and being a distinguished supporter of Humanists UK . He
108-545: The evening of Saturday 25 July 1992. Each week a panel of four or five, drawn from a pool of 'regulars', would discuss a number of topics, usually more or less frivolous, such as "Is Dan Maskell posh?" Among the regulars were Ann Leslie , Laurie Taylor , Milton Shulman , Benny Green , Nicholas Tucker , Dr Anthony Clare , Dr Michael O'Donnell , Edward Blishen , Rosalind Miles , Stephen Oliver , Sarah Harrison , Jasper Griffin , Christopher Page , Philip Oakes , Matthew Parris and Roger Royle . The musical interlude
120-587: The magazine, quit over a controversial cartoon depicting Christ slumped in the arms of the Virgin Mary. Jim Herrick was editor of New Humanist from 1984 until 2002, and subsequently became the journal’s literary editor until his retirement in 2005. From 2002 until 2005 the magazine's editor was Frank Jordans. In 2005 Caspar Melville took over as managing editor of the magazine and CEO of the Rationalist Association . Daniel Trilling assumed
132-486: The position of Editor in 2013. Samira Shackle became editor in spring 2020. Niki Seth-Smith is the current editor, having assumed the position in spring 2023. Laurie Taylor (sociologist) Anna Coote (?–?) Cathie Mahoney (1988–?) Laurence John Taylor (born 1 August 1936) is an English sociologist and radio presenter, originally from Liverpool . After attending Roman Catholic schools including St Mary's College, Crosby , Merseyside , then
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#1732783340745144-500: The wellbeing of long-term prisoners. He has collaborated with bank robber turned author, John McVicar , on research. Taylor has had an extensive broadcasting career on BBC Radio 4 . For many years he was a participant on Robert Robinson 's programme Stop The Week , later presented The Radio Programme and took on The Afternoon Shift , a re-branding of the ill-fated Anderson Country . His media associates have included Tom Baker and Victor Lewis-Smith . In 1991 he appeared in
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