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• Diary: Hitchen' a ride

  Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane Sherine on what was probably the craziest week of her life

• God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú

  Stephen Howe on a new history of Cromwell's Irish adventure

• The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd

  Philip Womack wonders why Peter Ackroyd has meddled with a classic

• Manifestos for the 21st Century

  Caroline Moorehead reviews an impressive new series on censorship

• Stop Me If You've Heard This by Jim Holt

  Natalie Haynes is not amused by a new study of humour

• The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life by Austin Dacey

  Jenny Bunker is at ease with a secular conscience

• Walk on by

  Laurie Taylor tries a bit of continental drift

• Cold flesh

  From interior designer to poet of the grotesque – Owen Hatherley traces the evolution of a tortured artistic humanist

• The Ten Commandments

  In his new book, New Humanist cartoonist Martin Rowson sums up the history, and future, of the world in one word

• 'Follow God, work & provoke no one'

  That’s the philosophy of a unique Muslim sect. Richard Dowden traces its spread across the diaspora