Editorial: Vive la Revolución!
Amid the battered bankers and pessimistic pundits why are humanists so happy?
Culture
Uncertainty principle: Laurie Taylor interviews Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle tells Laurie Taylor why he no longer has to be right all the time
Diary: Hitchen’ a ride
Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane Sherine on what was probably the craziest week of her life
God’s Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú
Stephen Howe on a new history of Cromwell's Irish adventure
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
Philip Womack wonders why Peter Ackroyd has meddled with a classic
Manifestos for the 21st Century
Caroline Moorehead reviews an impressive new series on censorship
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This by Jim Holt
Natalie Haynes is not amused by a new study of humour
The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life by Austin Dacey
Jenny Bunker is at ease with a secular conscience
Walk on by
Laurie Taylor tries a bit of continental drift
Cold flesh
From interior designer to poet of the grotesque – Owen Hatherley traces the evolution of a tortured artistic humanist