Culture

Leggo Relijan: Laurie Taylor interviews Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson is one of only two living poets to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. Laurie Taylor talks to him about reggae and resistance.

A sunny Eccentric

Jim Herrick on AN Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch

Raw Material

Jeremy Stangroom goes down to the woods with AS Byatt

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