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  • Gentle rottweiler: Laurie Taylor interviews Richard Dawkins

    Richard Dawkins' attack on religion has been hailed, revered and derided. He talks to Laurie Taylor about the mixed reception of The God Delusion

  • Ban the Pope

    Fred Halliday, who died on 25 April 2010, showed himself typically ahead of the curve in this article from 2007. The Vatican has power without accountability, an archaic structure and is launching an assault on secularism. Time to abolish it, says Fred Halliday

  • Diary: Comic timing

    Shappi Khorsandi reflects on the glamorous life of an atheist stand-up

  • Editorial: I respect your ignorance

    Humanists are not dogmatists obsessed with belief, says Caspar Melville

  • Naughty but nice

    Contemporary pornography is a hideous distortion of the joys of sex. Yet, argues Nina Power, it could all have been so different

  • Infantile disorder

    Michael Bywater won't be joining the new atheists

  • Diary: Putting on the God helmet

    Playright and director Mick Gordon describes how he went about creating religious voices for his new play

  • Editorial: Bleaker still and bleaker?

    What do they mean by 'post-secular'?

  • Anti-God squad

    Caspar Melville speaks to the Rational Response Squad, America's new web-savvy atheist activists

  • Hostile takeover

    A powerful coalition is trying to define Europe as Christian. And, warns Donald Sassoon, they must be stopped at once