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More war for oil
You can’t understand any of the world’s crises without understanding petropolitics
A sense of injustice
Sister Christine Frost, who works on an east London estate, sees why young Muslim men are going to fight in Iraq and Syria
Gaudy notebook
As the BA flight from Warsaw landed at Heathrow, I felt a little tremor of anxiety, though it wasn’t anything…
Love, care and laughter
Remembering Candida Lycett Green
The perfect malt
It was poker night. Five yuppies crammed round a table in a room at the back of a south London…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
My First Love
I made the mistake of getting in touch with him twenty years after – invited him to stay. He was…
The British beheaders
Why we lead the West in exporting jihad
The view from Kurdistan
Arriving in Erbil, you don’t feel you are in Iraq, but another country altogether, which is what the Kurds would…
Not black and white
The Ferguson riots are more than a simple case of racial division
Invading the womb of gods
The fighters of the Islamic State are bringing a deadly new intolerance to a territory rich in ancient sects
Girl talk
I applaud Frank – now Kellie – Maloney. But I still think being a woman means growing up as one
The Pope’s war
Francis really is determined to reform his church: but his targets are not the ones that liberals might expect
The Origin of Poetry
Forgive the figure curled like a question mark in the corner no one speaks his language He tried to read…
Set our footie fans free!
‘Bubble matches’ sound like something quaint. In fact,they’re an outrage against civil liberties
Seville
On our second night in Seville we got lost. We’d been to a flamenco concert, my first, a little way…
The Origin of Poetry
Forgive the figure curled like a question mark in the corner no one speaks his language He tried to read…
The Origin of Poetry
Forgive the figure curled like a question mark in the corner no one speaks his language He tried to read…
Defeat Isis? Yes we can
The West can’t afford to give up on Iraq
No we shouldn’t
Hawks are mistaking military action for strategy
Murder porn
It’s time to stand up against the self-righteous sharing of videos of beheading and other gruesome violence
Letter from Haiti
This summer, I returned to Haiti for the first time in ten years. I was itching to see how the…
The moaning middle
With soaring house prices and low interest rates, the middle classes are doing rather well. But you’d never think so to hear them
The cult of Dawkins
It’s like a church without the good bits. Membership starts from $85 a month
Born-again campaigners
Daniel Jackson 30 August 2014 9:00 am
The push for Scottish independence is driven forward by converts’ zeal