Chasing shadows
Santu Mofokeng is one of South Africa’s most celebrated photographers, recognised for his work with the Afrapix collective and on the newspaper New Nation. In these photographs he records a…
Human Rights & Ethics
The art of phwoar
Free websites like Pornhub mean that explicit sex films are only a click away. But are they any good? Michael Bywater offers a classical critique
Mills and minarets
The proving grounds for the government's policy to prevent home-grown Jihad are the industrial towns of the North. Paul Sims investigates
Moral dilemmas
Do we have the right to judge others? Steven Lukes reviews the evidence
Bad vibrations
Songs can break more than your heart. Martin Cloonan on the sinister uses and abuses of music
Diary: Science friction
It seems even sci-fi geeks can indulge in a spot of retrospective offence, says Natalie Haynes
Hatefest
We must prevent the UN being unravelled by bigotry and conflict, argues Ian Williams
From Fatwa to Jihad by Kenan Malik
Lindsay Johns is impressed by Kenan Malik's take on Rushdie and race
In the burning house
In 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition. Three years later she drowned herself. Her husband, the philosopher…
Unsafe havens
The Government is planning tougher penalties for men who use trafficked prostitutes. But who is helping the women themselves? Rahila Gupta uncovers a distributing trend