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  • Work ethics

    When religious beliefs conflict with professional duties how do we decide what's fair? We asked Richard Rowson, the man who wrote the rules

  • Book review: Hamas by Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell & Hizbullah by Naim Qassem

    When it comes to the two big Islamic political parties in the Middle East, should we fight or engage, asks Stephen Howe

  • On Tractor Street

    From elegant modernism to Stalinist kitsch, the history of the Soviet Union’s journey is written all over its facades, finds Owen Hatherley

  • Film review: Four Lions

    A film that laughs at suicide bombers but doesn't offend anyone? Chris Morris's big screen debut is the mouse that didn't roar, says Fred Rowson

  • Why Faisal Shahzad bombed Times Square

    Blame Pakistan’s simmering anti-Americanism, says Pervez Hoodbhoy

  • Editorial: Just believe

    It seems that anti-science is on the rise, but hopefully we've found the antidote

  • Cast away

    How humanist are the three main parties? With the general election fast approaching, Paul Sims has been canvassing

  • Diary: The gradual anarchist

    Stan Cohen remembers Colin Ward, the opposite of the cloak-and-dagger image of the anarchist

  • Battle of the Babies

    A new book argues that liberal secularism and high birth rates are fuelling a revival of religious fundamentalism. Caspar Melville speaks to its author Eric Kaufmann

  • Leap of faith

    Ruth Turner, Chief Executive of Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation, makes the case for faith-based aid