Volume 120 Issue 5 September/October 2005
- Sects addicts
- Government pandering to factions in Northern Ireland holds some stark lessons for Britain, says Newton Emerson
- Return of the master
- Salman Rushdie's new novel more than justifies the hype says Candy Clarke
- When the light goes out
- Launching our new series of guest diaries by people in the news is BBC Radio 4's chief announcer, Peter Donaldson. For 30 years his gracefully modulated tones have informed and reassured the nation. Now he reveals how he's managed to maintain continuity in a cutthroat world.
- Prime cuts
- Andrew Tudor looks at how DVD reissues and their much touted extras have changed our relationship with film
- Editorial: State of mind
- New editor Caspar Melville wishes New Humanist a happy 120th birthday
- Anarchy in the classroom
- Too often associated with chaos and disorder, anarchism is actually an ideology rooted in a radical theory of education, says Judith Suissa
- Matinee idylls
- Andrew Tudor samples this summer's holiday blockbusters
- Till death us do part?
- Weddings may be as popular as ever, but, as Sally Feldman discovers from our own survey, the chimes they are achanging
- New Labour
- Do you have a smile in your voice, a flexible attitude and the ability to negotiate? If so, warns Ewart Keep, you could be part of a growing workforce that is skilled without necessarily being able to do anything
- Leaps of faith
- Padraig Reidy endures some breakfast listening
- Ol' misery guts
- Laurie Taylor on the slippery slope to pessimism
- Champagne Islam
- Until recently, the Middle East enjoyed a culture of tolerance, sensuality and debate. Sami Zubaida celebrates its rich tradition
- True Aim
- Andrew Mueller peruses the life of the other Elvis
- Analyse this!
- In a field so riven by schism as psychoanalysis, a new book about Freud has to be greeted with some scepticism.
- Left behind
- Nick Cohen reflects on the book that changed his mind about Bush and Blair's war on terror
- Wrong headed
- Dominic Hilton on a 'timely satire' that is neither
- French lessons
- Jim Herrick reports from the worlds largest gathering of freethinkers
- Out on a limb
- JM Coetzee has done it again says Chris Paling
- I may be a Tory, but...
- Daily Mail columnist Simon Heffer makes a confession
- Monkey business
- A new book on apes has nothing to teach us about human nature
Features
- New Brotherhood
- The recent London bombings focused attention on Britain's black Muslims. Caspar Melville meets some new converts
- No more Mr Nice Guy: Laurie Taylor on Michael Ignatieff
- Once a liberal pin-up and intellectual leader of the global human rights movement, Michael Ignatieff has now fallen out with some of his closest friends. Laurie Taylor tracks an acrimonious battle