Book review: Pakistan: A Hard Country by Anatol Lieven
Stephen Howe discovers the best book to be written on modern Pakistan
Politics & Conflict
Stuart Hall
Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution
Saving the Lords Spiritual
With defeat likely in next week’s AV referendum, Nick Clegg’s hopes will lie with reforming the House of Lords. But he looks set to compromise and keep the bishops in…
Witch-hunt saboteurs
Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports
Long road to renewal
The Islamic world needs to recover its scientific spirit, says Jim Al-Khalili
No ifs, no buts
Qur’an burning is senseless, but we shouldn't be afraid to speak up for free speech, says Padraig Reidy
Book review: Ours Are The Streets by Sunjeev Sahota
Jake Wallis Simons isn't blown away by a debut novelist's take on homegrown radicalism
Whitewash
We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood
Faultline
From the Philippines to West Africa the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator, is a geographical frontline between Christianity and Islam. Eliza Griswold has…
What I owe the library
We can't do without our private places to read and think, says novelist Philip Pullman