Politics & Conflict

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…

Counterfeit liberals

David Bate analyses the surrealists’ dark view of humanism

Europe’s Malcolm X

Dyab Abou Jahjah is thirty–two 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…

Moral Monopoly

Evan Harris warns of the dangers of religious lobbying

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 anti–war movement. But why is a supposedly ‘progressive’ grouping making room for religious conservatives, asks Amanda Day?

What the butler saw

Tom Baldwin sees some queer goings on behind closed doors