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• Quiz: A lurgical problem

  Quizmaster Chris Maslanka challenges you to sidestep death and defeat the dreaded lurgy

• Woman of substance

  Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career

• Changing course

  The 'Arab Spring' has changed how we teach Middle East politics forever, says Kerem Oktem

• Stuart Hall

  Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution

• Test-tube truths

  Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope

• The man who would be God: an interview with AC Grayling

  Anthony Grayling's latest book is his most daring. He has rewritten the Bible, leaving out God. Matthew Adams meets him

• Mortal fear: Laurie Taylor interviews Lewis Wolpert

  Do we have to die? Biologist Lewis Wolpert talks to Laurie Taylor about the mysteries of ageing

• Quiz: No eggs/pence spared

  Break a few eggs and price up an omelette with quizmaster Chris Maslanka

• Book review: Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin

  Conor Gearty takes a tour round Ronald Dworkin's remarkable mind

• Rhyme & reason

  200 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ‘The Necessity of Atheism’. Jonathan Rée reassesses the romantic poet’s rationalism