Revisiting Spain

Holding Up a Savaged Mirror

By Russell Martin

The decision to hide Guernica from public view made the United Nations symbolically complicit in the Bush administration's efforts to distract the world from the fundamental reality that the impending invasion and “shock and awe” would necessarily initiate terrible destruction of human life. [subscribe]

Editorial

By Benjamin Ramm

Spain continues to compel and inspire a broad range of progressive opinion, from Michael Foot over Kosovo to Paul Berman on Iraq, and the spirit of the Republican cause speaks to all but the most parochial and doctrinaire. [more]

NON-FICTION REVIEW

Godless by Ann Coulter

By Christopher Hitchens

I have the distinct feeling that people do not buy Ann Coulter's creed-screeds and speed-reads in order to enhance their knowledge of history or their command of syllogism. [more]

FUTURE OF FEMINISM

Portrait of a Heroine as a Young Woman

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Why are European leaders so slow to appreciate the great role Muslim women can play in a successful integration of immigrants in the European Union? [subscribe]

POETRY REVIEW

Selected Poems by César Vallejo

Review by Stephen Hart

Vallejo left the best for last; rather like Emily Dickinson, his strongest poems were discovered after his death. [more]

COLUMNS

The Radical Gordon Brown?

By Anatole Kaletsky

Is Gordon Brown far to the left of Tony Blair? Will Brown, an unrepentant socialist, abandon the ‘New Labour’ project? Will the Blair-Brown transfer of power signify a return to the miserable days of Old Labour? [more]

BERTOLT BRECHT

Singing about the Dark Times

By Michael Hofmann

Poetry was for Brecht something he did on the side, almost a vice, a peccadillo. He didn't want it to be his living, but was helpless to prevent it from remaining his primary expression. [more]

AID & TRADE

Development After Doha

By Susan Kramer MP

The long-standing Liberal commitment to free trade may yet prove to be the greatest hope for the world's poor and dispossessed. [more]

FUTURE OF FEMINISM

Pro-Life Feminism

By Liz Hoskings

Pro-life feminism has emerged as a distinctive current, voicing the concerns of those of who have been marginalised by the mainstream. [more]

POLITICS

Strange Bedfellows in Darfur

By Gideon Mailer

The denials regarding Darfur are all the more chilling given the magnitude of suffering in the country. [subscribe]

POLITICS

Orange & Yellow

By Paul Marshall

The Yellow Book and Orange Book are two contrasting offerings in political economy from within the liberal tradition, separated by 75 years, and offering very different policy prescriptions. [subscribe]

TOWARDS A LIBERAL FUTURE

Liberalism without Frontiers

By Paddy Ashdown

We must conceieve of a new liberal internationalism that will guarantee the security and prosperity of Britian and cultivate liberalism around the globe. [subscribe]

THE MIDDLE EAST

As the dust settles... Israel

By Daphna Baram

There is a lot of talk at present about a ‘post-1973’ atmosphere in Israel, one that symbolises a loss of faith in both Israel's political system and its army command. [subscribe]

THE MIDDLE EAST

As the dust settles... Lebanon

By John Thorne

Beirut lay serene before us, as if resting from the exertion. “We are free”, Ramy explained, “and we are responsible: now we have to build the Lebanon we dream of”. [subscribe]

ECOLOGY

Environmentalism is a Humanism

By Niccoló Milanese

The global nature of environmental awareness explains why it has been able to link arms with so many other diverse campaigns for justice. [subscribe]

LOBBY FOR BEAUTY

William Blake in Prescotville

By David Boyle

When William Blake looked at London two centuries ago, and described the streets as ‘charter’d’ he changed the word from dirty in the first draft. [subscribe]

CHARITY OF THE MONTH

Educate a Child Project

The Educate a Child Project was started in Kalutara, Sri Lanka in 1984, with the intention of providing education for beach kids from very poor homes. [subscribe]