Our valued honorary associate, the writer Iain Banks has announced that he has "months to live" after discovering he has cancer.

Last week new NSS honorary associate Professor Lawrence Krauss caused controversy when he threatened to walk out of a UCL debate with a Muslim group because the audience had been sexually segregated.

The National Secular Society expressed its delight that Professor Lawrence Krauss has agreed to become an honorary associate.

The multi-award winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn says he is "proud to have his name included" among the NSS's list of honorary associates.