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• Culture's revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall

  Disillusioned but not defeated, Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about the limits of liberalism

• Fiendish summer quiz

  Win a host of prizes

• Sandals and spooks

  Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives

• Meme Wars (part 2)

  Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore

• East of Eden

  Jonathan Ree reviews Fallen by David Maine

• Sinking feeling

  Laurie Taylor questions yet another time-honoured certainty

• Mr Gray's Elegy

  The playwright and diarist Simon Gray died on August 6, 2008. In this review for 2006 Brenda Maddox reviews the second volume of Gray's 'Smoking Diaries', 'The Year of The Jouncer'

• Supreme being

  Ashley Kahn on Coltrane's spiritual journey

• 'Taking offence is the best form of attack'

  Martin Rowson discovers just how dangerous his job can be

• Aura Bore

  Laurie Taylor wonders what you do when friends go freaky