Many Muslims worldwide either support or adopt religious veiling, and those who argue against it are often criticized, or worse.But, according to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the veil throws up a number of c
The 'R' Word explores a changing country in a changing world, and our relationship with notions of race and racism, examining a paradox at the heart of anti-racism. By adopting the language of the opp
The meaning and message of Islam has been corrupted and perverted by a particularly virulent strain of Islam. Writer and critic Ziauddin Sardar tells the stories of different interpretations of Islam
The United Kingdom has a poor record on gender parity, both in Parliament and in business. But Britons hate the idea of positive discrimination. It's time to get tough, argues economist Vicky Pryce.Vi
Kelvin MacKenzie, once editor of a populist anti-immigrant newspaper, makes the case for welcoming immigration as an asset to the UK, both socially and economically, and argues against the increasingl
In this extraordinary, powerful polemic, celebrated writer Frederic Raphael looks back through two millennia of persecution, explaining not only exactly why it is people have been killing Jews for so
The sanctimony of charity and its persistent failure to do good with our money is matched only by two things, the lives of the people they promised us they would improve and the inevitable truth that
Identity politics are shaping Western art more than ever before. Visit any contemporary gallery and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with group identities and a set of dreary
London is already the greatest city of the twenty-first century, the one true global cultural megalopolis and we need to shout about it from the top of every tall building in town. It might be invidio
With typical wit and unrestrained perspicacity, Dylan Jones explores the myriad reasons that men appear to be in a perpetual state of stress, wondering where they fit into a world that seemingly no lo
"Authentic" has become the buzzword of our age. But, as Peter York has discovered, its meaning has changed and become corrupted. It is now practically impossible for us to differenti
Combining laugh-out-loud tales of parenthood with myth-busting facts and figures, Zoe Williams provides a witty critique of the commercial pressures on modern parents. They managed perfectly well for
An important new polemic from the Provocations series. Ball and Greenway examine how the `blagocracy' has come to rule Britain, and why that needs to change.
How did we become so thin-skinned? In this new and updated edition of her acclaimed polemic I Find That Offensive! Claire Fox addresses head on the possible causes of what is fast becoming known as ‘
The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the offspring of privileged parents. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor children to transcend their circumstances. Th
Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory
Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-op
Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper conce
Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of
