Culture

In a country forecourt

Paul Barker on the new architectural landmarks: petrol stations

Reader’s digest

Laurie Taylor has an appetite for the incomprehensible

Count me out

Laurie Taylor gets ready to resign (again)

20p a Prayer

Is an artwork entitled ‘It pays to pray’ satirical, or is it ‘spiritual’, asks Marilyn Mason

Nuclear Threat

Mark Steel wonders whether we should be worried about the Women’s Institute

Go Sue God

Mike Power watches the Big Yin fight for damages

Gun Law

No need to panic over Gangsta Rap, says Andrew Calcutt

The luxury of doubt: Laurie Taylor interviews Will Self

Satirist, moralist and literary provocateur —Will Self lectures Laurie Taylor on addiction, debauchery, banality and the search for serious thought

Cheap Shots

Andrew Tudor wants morality with his violence

Nutty Professors

Victor-Lewis Smith takes a critical look at science on TV