Nine highlights from Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
The best bits and the inside scoops from three years of our seasonal rationalist jamboree
Culture
Walk the tightrope
We don’t need religion, but mystical traditions still have a lot to teach us, says John Burnside
Let the kids believe in Santa
Atheists shouldn’t crush the magic of Christmas, says Myra Zepf
Censorship on the terraces
Legislation aimed at football chants will not tackle Scotland's sectarian violence, argues Padraig Reidy
New Humanist Cartoons Nov/Dec 2011
Cartoons from the November December issue of New Humanist
Q&A: Al Murray
The Oxford-educated, history-loving comedian behind the hugely popular Pub Landlord tells New Humanist what it’s like living with the nation’s favourite guv’nor
Ex con
Laurie Taylor side-steps a scam
Dawkins’ new book impresses the kids
With his new book The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins wants to introduce children to the wonders of science. He gets a resounding thumbs up from Manjit Kumar's resident young…
The cutting season: Female Genital Mutilation and the UK
Over the school holidays hundreds of British girls are taken abroad to undergo a procedure that is internationally recognised as a violation of their human rights. Alice Onwordi reports
The last Crusade
The claim that Christianity provides the bedrock of Western culture might serve the interests of extremists, but it is a betrayal of a far more complex history, argues Kenan Malik