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Stewart Lee: "Good comedy is innately humanist. It asks us to empathise on some level. I don’t know how much of a force for good it can be, but I do know that it can make people who are very distressed and upset about the state of the world feel a little bit less alone" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
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I review a film about Cuba’s new Family Code. Possibly the world’s most radical constitutional provision on women’s & LGBT+ rights
Plus Caroline Lucas on Reclaiming the Flag & Rowan Williams on Christian nationalism
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"Nolan surely didn’t make a $250 million movie just to bait US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, but it certainly works on that level"
#TheOdyssey
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With "The Odyssey", Christopher Nolan has delivered a frighteningly relevant epic on a civilisation ripping itself apart.
"He has extracted from the poem an urgent allegory of crimes and consequences that speaks to our own fears of wilful civilisational collapse"
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"The world is so ruined right now, comedy can serve as a catharsis. Trump can’t be removed ... but we can imagine him being sodomised by a werewolf with a micropenis."
Yep, you read that right: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
Stewart Lee: "Good comedy is innately humanist. It asks us to empathise on some level. I don’t know how much of a force for good it can be, but I do know that it can make people who are very distressed and upset about the state of the world feel a little bit less alone" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
With "The Odyssey", Christopher Nolan has delivered a frighteningly relevant epic on a civilisation ripping itself apart
newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
"The key element of all clowning is man’s desire to retain their dignity. When they fail, that is what we find funny. On the positive side, there’s also a part of humour that is about redressing balance, destabilising powerful figures".
Stewart Lee on comedy and cruelty: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
"If we’re looking for what animates Christian nationalism, I think it’s in part the very simple search for someone to blame."
Read former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Christian nationalism, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, and more in the new issue of New Humanist, out today: buff.ly/JXJdTlf
ALT Rowan Williams in New Humanist magazine
ALT Promotional graphic for New Humanist showing portraits of former Archbishop Rowan Williams (left) and Humanists UK chief executive Andrew Copson (right) promoting a discussion titled "Is Christian nationalism a threat to the UK?" with a cross and St George flags in the background.
"Nolan surely didn’t make a $250 million movie just to bait US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, but it certainly works on that level" newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
"My showbiz friend @michaelsheen noted that the American comedians he knew only talked about *if* ideas were funny, whereas British, Irish and Antipodean comics worry more about *why* things are funny and *should* things be funny."
Comedian Stewart Lee on comedy and cruelty: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
"The world is so ruined right now, comedy can serve as a catharsis. Trump can’t be removed ... but we can imagine him being sodomised by a werewolf with a micropenis."
Yes, you read that right. It's from our interview with Stewart Lee on politics and absurdity: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
"Nolan is not famed for his female characters. But Penelope, Helen of Troy and the sorceress Circe all get to voice their rage at men and their monstrous appetites."
Read our take on the film everyone's talking about: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
#TheOdyssey
Stewart Lee on politics, absurdity and how humour can help people cope with the state of the world newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
"The discourse around The Odyssey has been gruelling ... The movie-star casting, vernacular dialogue and American accents have all wound up somebody or other, as if English actors speaking archaically in RP would have been more authentic."
Check out our review of Nolan's epic: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
Binface didn't beat Reform in Clacton. But could he be what progressive politics needs?
Stewart Lee on the power of humour: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
How magic mushrooms gave one philosopher a deeper understanding of ideas he’d studied for decades newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
