Apocalysts now
What if you not only believed that the world was going to end but had the power to make it happen? David S Katz explores the modern occult
Politics & Conflict
Losing Faith
Andrew Copson finds danger in Blair's education reforms
Culture’s revenge: Laurie Taylor interviews Stuart Hall
Disillusioned but not defeated, Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about the limits of liberalism
Against the tide
Stephen Howe wallows in left melancholia
Sex Crimes
Brian Whitaker traces the evolution of Middle-Eastern homophobia
New testaments
30 years after the Soweto uprising, Carol Lee meets some survivors
Best of enemies
Capitalism and central planning need each other, argues Steven Lukes
Sandals and spooks
Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives
Gaza Taliban?
On the eve of the Palestinian elections in 2006, Aya Yasmina May asked what we can expect of Hamas
‘Moscow isn’t Sodom’
Merlin Holland joins the first Gay Pride march in the Russian capital