As a country where weapons outnumber people, half the population is illiterate, close to a quarter of them cannot find work and internecine fighting is forcing thousands from their homes, Yemen has become fertile ground for jihadis looking to take up the mantle of Osama Bin Laden. Stretched around the southern heel of the Arabian […]
A voice of reason in irrational times, Richard Dawkins is both theorist and explainer of one of the greatest discoveries of the human mind. Thomas Henry Huxley, the great contemporary populariser of Charles Darwin’s ideas, declared it his aim to “smite all humbugs, however big; to give a nobler tone to science; to set an […]
He wants a YouTube prayer site and a Live Aid for the Jews, and his online peace anthem has had 600,000 hits. The Chief Rabbi is a very modern traditionalist. He doesn’t “do Twitter or texts” — “I’m still chipping away at the stone tablets” — but he wants to produce a “little moment of […]
Today it is a peaceful nation, its tranquil countryside rich, its towns and markets prosperous and full of tourists. But 30 years ago Cambodia was a hell on earth, a country ruled by the Khmer Rouge, a deranged clique of manic Maoists intent on systematic genocide. More than 1.7 million people, a quarter of Cambodia’s […]
