If you meet any “Storms” at Xmas parties, go easy on them – or not.

The Rationalist Association’s magazine New Humanist has a new editor, Daniel Trilling. When he introduced himself in August, making it clear that he didn’t share an anti-religious, hardline atheist point of view, he attracted (predictably) some strong criticism from those who did. In the winter edition of the magazine he’s written, As anyone whos ventured online knows, to many people atheist has become a badge of identity, and an aggressive, exclusionary one at that.