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Happy day

Oh, happy day

Sally Feldman, a humanist wedding celebrant, welcomes a rational breakthrough in the marriage laws

Skulduggery Pleasant

Q&A: Derek Landy

As The Last Stand of Dead Men, the eighth book in his best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series, is published, Irish author Derek Landy talks to New Humanist about his skeleton sleuth,…

Derren Brown

The magic of Derren Brown

He'll dazzle you with devious misdirection, puzzle you with prestidigitation and flummox you with flim-flam. He's our greatest entertainer, says AL Kennedy

Douglas Adams

The Prophet: a satire

Humanism has science, logic and polemics by the hatful. But what it needs is stories & someone to tell them

Turncoats

The Turncoats

The strange sub-genre of ex-atheist memoirs, spurious as it is, has an important message for atheism – we need to do a better job of reaching out and holding on…

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