Intellectual Treason
Meera Nanda uncovers an extraordinary coalition that is undermining science
Politics & Conflict
Crescent among the stars
Gilles Kepel asks how Turkey will change the face of Europe
Take that for Jesus!
Newton Emerson on growing up atheist in Northern Ireland
Tories in trouble
Michael Binyon reviews the crisis in conservativism
EU ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Mark Leonard argues that the future of politics lies in the European model of cooperation and rule of law
After the Gulag
Laura Piacentini explores the paradoxes of Russia's prisons since the fall of the Soviet Union
Whatever it takes
It's going to be a truly horrid election, predicts Simon Hoggart
Get real in Madrid
Anthony Barnett and Bill Thompson look forward to a path-breaking virtual conference on combating terrorism and deepening democracy
Where will you put your cross?
In the run-up to the election, parties are promising the world to religious groups. But what can they offer to the average humanist? We asked the parties for their positions…
Blood on their cassocks
Linda Melvern reveals the role of the Catholic Church in the Rwandan genocide