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  • Africa's imaginary gay crisis

    Across the continent, gays have become the scapegoats for destitution, argues Ebenezer Obadare

  • Editorial: Big books

    Bibles, doubt and morality without God

  • Woman of substance

    Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career

  • Stuart Hall

    Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution

  • Witch-hunt saboteurs

    Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports

  • No ifs, no buts

    Qur’an burning is senseless, but we shouldn't be afraid to speak up for free speech, says Padraig Reidy

  • Test-tube truths

    Should science guide our moral decisions? Kenan Malik puts Sam Harris's latest argument under the microscope

  • Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota

    Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism

  • Whitewash

    We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood

  • Faultline

    From the Philippines to West Africa the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator, is a geographical frontline between Christianity and Islam. Eliza Griswold has researched the resulting conflict for seven years. This is her dispatch from Nigeria