Since the dawn of time
Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, scientists still can’t agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist
Our future in their hands
It is a myth that David Cameron and George Osborne have no ideas – from elected police chiefs to parents setting up “free schools”, they have armed their party with policies that match their vision of a smaller state
The last revolutionary
Fidel Castro has survived 600 assassination attempts to become the world symbol of anti-capitalism. His sister has just confessed she used to spy on him, the US embargo stands, and his health is failing, yet still he endures
“It would be a missed opportunity not to have a referendum on election day”
An interview with the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw
Suicide attacks are un-Islamic
There is nothing Islamic about so-called Islamic terrorism. But why are so many Muslims reluctant to condemn it?
13 dead at Fort Hood army base
US major opens fire in what Obama calls a "horrific outburst of violence"
Third round of postal strikes called off
No more strikes before Christmas, under interim agreement
Brown: Britain "will not walk away" from Afghanistan
PM defends war, as opinion polls show crumbling public support
BA announces further 1,200 job losses after record loss
Airline recorded pre-tax loss of £292 million in past six months
Brussels is back with a vengeance
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty creates new dilemmas for David Cameron-and for David Miliband
Suicide attacks are un-Islamic
There is nothing Islamic about so-called Islamic terrorism.
Our future in their hands
Cameron and Osborne have armed their party with anti-statist policies
Leader: Killed in the name of crooked Karzai
The tawdry spectacle of Karzai's "re-election" should shame western leaders
End of the irony age
Once shocking, much of the work in Tate’s latest survey of pop art now seems tired. It shows how inured we’ve become to big-bucks banality
Invisible
The existential thrillers of Paul Auster remain seductive, but his is a "voodoo enterprise"
Into the Storm/Wonderland
Unlike Blair or Brown, Churchill had a conscience
Immoral icons
A look at the winners of the Stirling Prize, celebrating British achievement in architecture
When it comes to carbon footprints, I’m a LoseACC
Sacrificed in the name of sushi
Good idea: Starting from scratch
Franny Armstrong - extended interview
A longer version of this week's NS interview
"Jesus was a leftie"
So says Daily Mail star writer. Why will that annoy lefties so much?
Science as a "political act"
Pierre Bourdieu on Claude Lévi-Strauss
Happiness is U-shaped
Don't believe all you read suggesting that quality of life in the UK is rotten
Campaign spotlight: Toxic assets
Darling must not put VAT back up
The news that we are still in recession proves that this is no time to raise taxes
Poverty impoverishes us all
Cameron's Tories, unlike the left, recognise that we are in social as well as economic crisis
Leader: George Osborne: what is your plan B?
The complacency of the political classes may yet send Britain into the depression we have so far avoided
Alpha mail
Until he surfaced recently Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier had stayed strangely quiet
It’s time for a few home truths
With wages falling it is unlikely that house prices have reached the bottom yet
The postal strike is our strike
As they come under renewed attack from New Labour, postal workers deserve our solidarity
Metropolis now
Mayors Boris Johnson and Michael Bloomberg have become rivals. Who will win?
Will Self
On Oscar Wilde
James Macintyre
Miliband's dilemma
John Pilger
Support the strike
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Alain de Botton
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