ontents Winter 2014
Regulars p. 5 Editor’s Note p. 7 Letters p. 8 The Q&A Campaigner Shami Chakrabarti on liberty p. 11 Witness Dispatches on science,
culture and politics p. 72 The Big Question Is there a place for religion in schools?
y/ alam sc o t o n mets o p. 73 Quiz Set by Chris Maslanka columns p. 10 Cosmos Life: the cosmic connection By Marcus Chown p. 18 Celebrities Revolution, the Russell Brand way By Padraig Reidy p. 71 How to watch football What use is a glorious past? By Juliet Jacques p. 74 Endgame He’s still a jolly good Fellow By Laurie Taylor
Shami Chakrabarti, page 8
Revolutionaries, page 46
‘That’s why we live together
– it’s not because we like each other’ Federico Campagna, page 42
Features p. 20 Interview Charlie Brooker talks about rationalism, comedy and mental health By Ariane Sherine p. 38 Reportage How Turkey’s ruling party has struggled to reconcile
Islamic tradition with free-market capitalism
By Kaya Genc p. 24 Conflict How should we fight religious fundamentalism?
By Rahila Gupta p. 30 Conspiracies Ten hours with David Icke
By James Ward p. 32 Cover story The responsibilities of a writer By Philip Pullman p. 42 In conversation Can we imagine a world without work? By Federico Campagna, Dawn Foster and James
Meadway Culture p. 46 Ideas Why Enlightenment values are truly global
By Jonathan Israel p. 50 Television Utopia and other visions of the apocalypse By Sarah Ditum p. 54 Fashion A feminist history of the handbag By Sally Feldman p. 58 Film What Pride tells us about class and sexuality By Huw Lemmey p. 62 Travel A journey to China By Fiona Sampson
Books p. 66 Reviews Francis Beckett on abuse in the Catholic Church; Matthew Adams on a history of severed heads;
Houman Barekat on Jewish identity; Joana Ramiro on Angola’s forgotten past; Rebecca Swirsky on Mohsin Hamid’s essays about the War on Terror poetry p. 53 The Marker By Maitreyabandhu p. 57 G. & A. Boden
By Alan Jenkins p. 61 Les Beaux Jours
By Ioana Ieronim p. 65 Alone By Penelope Shuttle
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