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Issue: September 2013
Online Only: Countering the Counter-Jihadists
The selective silence of leading lights in the counter-Jihad movement fuels the violence of Anders Breivik and other European fascists
Hugo Schmidt
Features
Global Governance
Islam
UK Politics
War on Terror
Birthrate of a Nation
'Britain is living through a baby boom, but where does this demographic surge leave the prophecies of Europe's crisis of civilisation?'
Daniel Johnson
Manchester Square
UK Politics
The Cornish Spiderman
The softly spoken Cornishman Michael Adams weaves webs around his opponents and strikes when it is too late for his encircled
Dominic Lawson
Chess
Sir Hugh Casson
Michael Prodger
Drawing Board
Uncritical Theorists Who Misread the Nazis
A new volume of reports by the Frankfurt School shows their number to be at best naive and at worst dangerously misinformed
Walter Laqueur
Academia
Books
Germany
History
Reason, Religion and the Terror
Anthony Pagden's celebration of the Enlightenment swiftly turns into a sustained, and unwarranted, diatribe against religion
Jeremy Jennings
Books
History
Ten Billion Loose Ends
Two new books come to different conclusions about the geo-political impact of the coming population boom
Robert Mayhew
Books
Global Governance
Comfort For Sad Souls
George Herbert is the poet's poet. John Drury's biography is at times infuriatingly simplistic, but succeeds in its scholarship
Laura Keynes
Books
Literature
A Voice For the Oppressed
The Dark Road
is a novel that transmits the reality of human suffering at the hands of the Chinese government
Anna Halpine
Books
Literature
Just Don’t Call it Science Fiction
MaddAddam
occasionaly misses the mark, but at its best is an existential voyage and an exploration of storytelling itself
Jessica Lambert
Books
Literature
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Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
Food
A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
Drawing Board