Is it over for Catholic Ireland?
The deteriorating relationship between the Vatican and the Irish state is good news for the Republic, says Padraig Reidy
Politics & Conflict
Faith in the Big Society
David Cameron would like religious groups to deliver public services. But can they be trusted? asks James Gray
Equal in love?
Peter Tatchell says it is time to end the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships
Egypt’s three revolutionary fronts
As Egypt prepares for post-Mubarak elections, could the activists of Tahrir Square be in danger of losing out to more reactionary forces? asks Austin Mackell
Aftershock: 9/11 ten years on
A decade after the destruction of the Twin Towers, the greatest change to the world has been the reinvention of Islam, says Stephen Howe
I am bovvered
White trash, vermin, underclass, broken Britain. When Owen Jones published his book Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class, he wasn’t expecting such an onslaught
A Fatah-Hamas truce is good for Palestinians
The Arab Spring is aiding political reconciliation in Gaza, explains Sami Zubaida
Trouble at Grayling Hall
Its difficult not to see the New College of the Humanities as misguided and anti-humanist, says Sally Feldman
Book review: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns
Richard Wilson is impressed by a new book on the collapse of the Congo
Freethinking in the Arab Spring
Expressing irreligious views can be dangerous in the Middle East but, for the region's largest group of online rationalists, the Egyptian revolution is a cause for optimism, finds Max Opray