Revealing is Healing
Her mother, Ruth First, was assassinated by a parcel bomb sent by the South African security forces. Her father, Joe Slovo, helped create the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And the…
Politics & Conflict
A view from the left
by Jim Herrick
In the Cross Fire
Tom Baldwin on bishops and the war
This is my Truth: Laurie Taylor interviews Clare Short
Clare Short talks to Laurie Taylor about faith, doubt and the resignation that never was
Another Pint of Claret
Simon Hoggart wonders whether the House is dumbing down
Brief Encounter
A compendium of political journalism reviewed by Hazhir Teimourian
Apocalypse Now
Why do so many of America's most fundamentalist Christians support Israeli expansionism? asks Matt Cherry
Puritan Atheist: Laurie Taylor interviews Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens talks to Laurie Taylor about George Orwell, false gods and bogus utopias
Star Struck
Simon Hoggart laments a newspapers fall from reason
What comes naturally
Nicholas Walter's introduction to Anarchism, reviewed by Colin Ward