Blue Period
The reason its so tough being Tory leader, suggests Simon Hoggart, is that you just cant get the staff these days
Politics & Conflict
Assault on freedom
Nick Cohen deplores the sinister absurdity of Blunkett's latest proposal for dealing with religious hatred
Nowhere man
Elia Zureik – born Palestine, left Israel, lives Canada – discovers under interrogation at Tel Aviv airport that he has lost his identity
Frontline Films
Mitchell Miller on two close-up views of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Blood on their cassocks
Linda Melvern reveals the role of the Catholic Church in the Rwandan genocide
No More Manifestos
Colin Ward wants less talk and more action
‘Yids, spicks and spades’
It's Martin Rowson gone mad!
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…
Counterfeit liberals
David Bate analyses the surrealists dark view of humanism
Europe’s Malcolm X
Dyab Abou Jahjah is thirtytwo years old. He was born in Lebanon, which he left at the age of nineteen for asylum in Belgium, even though he now happily admits…