‘There is an obduracy in anti-Semitism’
"It is a source of great comic consolation to Jews to recognise their paranoia and make light of it." Howard Jacobson on anti-Semitism
Politics & Conflict
‘We got ‘im’
Edwin Morgan on the capture of Saddam
Springtime for India
Michael Binyon weighs up the votes
Worthless values
Simon Hoggart says politics must be personal
War on error
Stuart Sim argues we must fight fire with reason
Escape from Fallujah
Jo Wilding is in Iraq as part of a humanitarian effort working with traumatised children. She ended up escorting ambulances to hospitals in the besieged town of Fallujah. Here she…
What the butler saw
Tom Baldwin sees some queer goings on behind closed doors
Back to the USSR?
In the wake of Russia's recent, widely criticised elections, Michael Binyon asks whether Putin is taking his country back to a Soviet past
Imperial Catastrophe
Michael Mann, the leading historian of power, forecast the failure of the American adventure in Iraq. So what should happen next?
Hammer and Crescent
A potential electoral force is emerging from the antiwar movement. But why is a supposedly progressive grouping making room for religious conservatives, asks Amanda Day?