Volume 120 Issue 3 May/June 2005
- Reel time
- Andrew Tudor salutes Ken Loach's unique vision
Features
- Defender of faiths: Laurie Taylor interviews Eileen Barker
- Eileen Barker, the world's leading expert on religious cults, tells Laurie Taylor how it takes an agnostic to truly understand why people choose to believe
- First amendments
- Shannon Gilreath reveals how Christian fundamentalists are rewriting American history
- Nothing for the weekend
- Terry Sanderson warns that conscience chemists are coming your way
- Onions in your navel
- Sally Feldman sticks a few pins in the ancient custom of cursing
- How long does it take to belong?
- Ireland is attempting to cope with unprecedented levels of immigration. Mark Maguire asks if the experience of the Vietnamese 'boat people' can offer any lessons
- China Syndrome
- Hugo de Burgh reports on the emergence of investigative journalism in the People�s Republic � and its unexpected effects
Cover Stories
- Floodgates of reform
- Elections in June offer the chance for transformation in Iran. Mohsen Sazegara, a former aide to Ayatollah Khomeini, offers his solution for escaping theocracy
Culture
- Dark materials
- Jim Herrick discovers Joan Bakewell's Belief
- Slippery slope
- Richard Norman assesses the arguments for the final choice
- Freudian trip
- Peter Kerr�Jarrett takes a couch trip
- Men in Masks
- Sally Feldman isn't enamoured with Allende's swashbuckler
- The real thing
- Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery
- People's will
- Toby Saul bows to the will of the people
- Secularist Islam
- David Hall on the myth and reality of Islamism
Columns
- The holy zygote
- Raffaella Malaguti on Rome�s birth controllers
- Not waving, but dying
- "Down a bit lower. That's it. Now, look at the camera. And now look puzzled. That doesn't look like 'puzzled'. Really puzzled. Hold it. Now, can you get even lower?"
- Buggering on a pinhead
- Martin Rowson is delighted to report that religion is on its last legs
- Rotten to the core
- After the free-for-all of sentimentality that reigned from John Paul II's faltering on Easter Sunday, through his demise and funeral, right up to the emergence of white smoke from a Vatican chimney, we can now settle back into our regular pattern.
- Requiem for a Nightmare
- Julian Baggini holds back the tears for John Paul II
- Very big ideas
- Julian Baggini weighs up a hefty tome
- Not the Natural History Museum
- Padraig Reidy misses a few links in Portsmouth Harbour
