Anya Pearson interviews Petina Gappah, Zimbabwean novelist and lawyer, whose first book An Elegy for Easterly was shortlisted for the 2010 Orwell book pri...
Anya Pearson speaks to documentary film-maker and producer Norma Percy, who won the Special Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2010 for the documentaries she ha...
Back in 2007, four intellectuals, the figureheads
of New Atheism, met for drinks and an informal discussion of their views. Each
individual had taken it upon t...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
When did you last pick up a copy of your local paper? Not
recently? You’re not the only one. Britain’s local press looks to be on its
last legs. Since 2005, al...
In his classic study of racism and psychiatry, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon made a number of startling and powerful observations. While many of these h...
Wearing poppies has become far more controversial than in any period since this British initiative of remembrance began in 1921. For example, white poppies, fir...
In spite of its important geopolitical position, Yemen has remained one of the least studied countries of the Middle East, so Lackner's contribution to its sc...
This book starts from the perspective of Jo Swinson's own experiences as a young woman in the male dominated sphere of politics. The author, a Scottish Liberal ...
Andrew Hindmoor's monograph on the future prospects for British social democracy is one of the most important to have been written on the left for some years.
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In international politics we are seeing a wave of tribalism. From an existentialist perspective, this reductive movement offers simplistic solutions, derogation...
The protests, related violence and killings that were sparked by the American embassy move to Jerusalem is unlikely to shift hard-line Christian opinion about I...
