Book review: Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
In his new book, the Bad Science author Ben Goldacre takes on the faulty practices of the pharmaceutical industry. Is it a battle he can win? asks Martin Robbins
Culture
Q&A: Alice Roberts
Alice Roberts’ career as a science broadcaster has flourished with a series of popular documentaries like The Incredible Human Journey, Are We Still Evolving? and Prehistoric Autopsy. She is also…
A reasonable life
Matthew Adams gets inside the mind of the President of the Rationalist Association, Sir Jonathan Miller
Swan Song
Laurie Taylor tries the ballet
Ballads of unsuccess
A new collection confirms James Fenton as one of our very best poets. Matthew Adams meets him
Lessons unlearnt
With its cast of blood-thirsty mullahs, equivocating politicians, apologetic liberals and artists requiring police protection, Salman Rushdie’s memoir of the fatwa years couldn’t be more timely, says Kenan Malik
Jam & Jerusalem
Underestimate the Women's Institute at your peril, says Sally Feldman
No nonsense: remembering Winston Fletcher
Laurie Taylor, Chair of the Rationalist Association, remembers his fellow trustee, who died on 4 September 2012
Book review: Why We Build by Rowan Moore
Hugh Pearman enjoys a constructive history of architecture
Book review: Radical by Maajid Nawaz
Alom Shaha admires the honesty of a former Islamist