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Exclusive: easyJet grounds in-flight magazine after Holocaust gaffe
- By Stephen Morris
- 20 November 2009
Airline U-turn follows Holocaust Memorial fashion shoot
What was easyJet thinking?
- By George Eaton
- 20 November 2009
A case of remarkable wickedness or remarkable stupidity
The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden
- By Mehdi Hasan
- 19 November 2009
“People are surprised when I say I’m the son of Osama Bin Laden”
Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
- By Sigrid Rausing
- 19 November 2009
Sexual violence is everywhere in Uganda. A new bill punishing homosexuals is part of that culture
Cloud control
- By Bjorn Lomborg
- 19 November 2009
Drastic and immediate cuts in carbon emissions, as advocated by most of the green lobby, are an expensive way of doing very little good. They would reduce growth and especially hurt the world’s poor. But there is another, better way
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Exclusive: easyJet grounds in-flight magazine after Holocaust gaffe
- By Stephen Morris
- 20 November 2009
Airline U-turn follows Holocaust Memorial fashion shoot
Waking the dead
- By Terry Eagleton
- 12 November 2009
For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future
A double-shot of sanctimony
- By Will Self
- 12 November 2009
Starbucks coffee is so bad I'll happily walk several blocks just to avoid drinking the stuff
The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden
- By Mehdi Hasan
- 19 November 2009
“People are surprised when I say I’m the son of Osama Bin Laden”
The Sun sinks to a new low
- By James Macintyre
- 12 November 2009
The Sun has returned to doing what it does best: bashing Labour. And, it seems, at any price
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“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”
- By Jonathan Derbyshire
- 29 October 2009
The eminent thinker Slavoj Žižek tells Jonathan Derbyshire why he rejects mainstream political theory, why he supports Barack Obama, and why we need Marx more than ever
Exclusive: easyJet grounds in-flight magazine after Holocaust gaffe
- By Stephen Morris
- 20 November 2009
Airline U-turn follows Holocaust Memorial fashion shoot
The postal strike is our strike
- By John Pilger
- 22 October 2009
New Labour has done its best to destroy the Post Office as a public institution. Postal workers deserve our solidarity
Waking the dead
- By Terry Eagleton
- 12 November 2009
For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future
A double-shot of sanctimony
- By Will Self
- 12 November 2009
Starbucks coffee is so bad I'll happily walk several blocks just to avoid drinking the stuff
Since the dawn of time
- By Dan Jones
- 05 November 2009
Two hundred years after Darwin’s birth, scientists still can’t agree on whether evolution and religion can happily coexist
How the BNP came in from the cold
- By James Macintyre
- 22 October 2009
Question Time's grotesque stunt has allowed the BNP to enter the political mainstream. There is now no going back
Most popular stories in the last 6 months
Does God Hate Women?
- By Johann Hari
- 02 July 2009
Authors Benson and Stangroom dismantle the logic of those who cite religion to justify the perpetuation of misogynistic abuses around the globe
The next 100 years
- By George Friedman
- 27 August 2009
Japan and Turkey form an alliance to attack the US. Poland becomes America’s closest ally. Mexico makes a bid for global supremacy, and a third world war takes place in space. Sounds strange? It could all happen. . .
Change we can’t believe in
- By Mehdi Hasan
- 08 October 2009
Barack Obama promised a sharp break from the Bush era, yet he seems to have stepped into the shoes of his disgraced predecessor. As the anniversary of his election approaches, Mehdi Hasan investigates what went wrong
God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World
- By John Gray
- 21 May 2009
Contrary to what evangelical rationalists preach, it is perfectly possible both to be modern and to believe in God. But there is no reason to assume that the American religious model will prevail
Eternal vigilance
- By Keith Gessen
- 28 May 2009
Throughout the 1940s, George Orwell was formulating the ideas about language and politics that found their ultimate expression in Nineteen Eighty-Four. His essays from this period are a plain-spoken pleasure, despite their contradictions
Why I believe again
- By A N Wilson
- 02 April 2009
A N Wilson writes on how his conversion to atheism may have been similar to a road to Damascus experience but his return to faith has been slow and doubting
We cannot be killed
- By Sion Simon
- 25 September 2007
'Shortly there will be an election, in which Labour will increase its majority'
Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie
- By John Pilger
- 01 October 2009
Obama's "showdown" with Iran has another agenda. The media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war
