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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
Since the dawn  of time

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
Our future in their hands

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
The last revolutionary

“It would be a missed opportunity not to have a referendum on election day”

An interview with the Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw
“It would be a missed opportunity not to have a referendum on election day”

Suicide attacks are un-Islamic

There is nothing Islamic about so-called Islamic terrorism. But why are so many Muslims reluctant to condemn it?
Suicide attacks are un-Islamic

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

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

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

We are the Ronaldos of activism

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

Horrific shooting at Fort Hood

"Jesus was a leftie"

Since the dawn of time

"Jesus was a leftie"

So says Daily Mail star writer. Why will that annoy lefties so much?

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Shlomo Sand in conversation with the New Statesman

The Invention of the Jewish People

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Horrific shooting at Fort Hood

What does this mean for America's Muslim soldiers?

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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

Q&A: Duncan Bannatyne

Q&A: Duncan Bannatyne

The entrepreneur discusses his philanthropy and anti-smoking campaigning

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

Where the Wilde things are

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

John Pilger

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John Pilger

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Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Afghanistan

Crooked Karzai

Leader: Killed in the name of crooked Karzai

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