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• We've digitised our archive - and it goes back to 1884!

• "Humankind is unique in its incapacity to learn from experience"

  Q&A with political philosopher John Gray,

• The battle for legal humanist marriages in Northern Ireland continues

  In the latest ruling by the Court of Appeal, Laura Lacole and Eunan O’Kane won the right for their wedding to be recognised as lawful.

• Book review: Seven Types of Atheism

  John Gray's latest book goes to great pains to underline the debt that non-religious intellectuals owe religion.

• Pakistani humanist refused asylum - for failing to identify Plato and Aristotle

  Hamza bin Walayat has received death threats in Pakistan after renouncing religion.

• "Secularism is under threat"

  Q&A with Andrew Copson, chief executive of Humanists UK and author of "Secularism: Politics, Religion and Freedom".

• What the Stoics did for us

  Could a 2,300-year-old Graeco-Roman philosophy be the key to a happy 21st-century life?

• Book review: Religion and Atheism

  This collection of thought-provoking essays shows that dividing lines often cut in different ways.

• The myth of humanism's Christian roots

  It’s a dangerous folly to believe that the values of tolerance and equality are exclusively Christian in origin.

• Book review: To Be A Machine

  Mark O'Connell's study of transhumanism is a portrait of a movement that believes death is our disgrace and technology our redeemer.