News of playwright Harold Pinter’s death arrived in primetime, Christmas – a religious date, in Britain, for watching telly. You couldn’t escape the news and

“Feliss Nabbidad!” yells dad. “Happy birthday Jesus!” – it’s always a bad idea to stay at your parents’ on Christmas Eve. Cheery Mexican brass blares

I have a recurring dream. I fly to the homes of Jews, Muslims, and leave presents for their children. Christians are outraged. In one north

One of the highlights of my last trip to Bombay, in March, was of meeting a 90-year-old Parsi woman who spoke Persian and was a

The word socialist has been bandied about more in the past few weeks than it has since the early 1990s. John McCain was asked whether

Why should anyone get to know you? It’s a question I’ve struggled with for the past few weeks. Every answer that I put on to

James Bond is arguably the mother of all ‎on-screen celebrations of white, European ‎masculinity. More than two billion people – ‎two fifths of the world’s

The BBC and pretty much every outlet has, in reporting the Amstetten incest story, consistently used the word ‘fathered’ — as in Josef Fritzl has

Role reversal is a technique where, to have better insight into a situation, a person exchanges role with another, in other word, walking in someone

From teaspoon verse dept, soul bean cafe. Pope-mobile, pope-mobile, to me your car is hope-mobile That’s how bad thing are. What do you do back

Yesterday I caught sight of a driver, travelling in the opposite direction, giving the finger to another motorist. Such was his emphasis that his knuckle

1.30pm I’m in Hanger Hill park in Ealing. A cyclist brushes past an old couple. They huff and puff. He stops and confronts them, American

Alexandra Palace in north London on a grey morning in December – a Thursday. An Indian-looking man in a bright orange parka is guarding the

Meet political campaigner Benjamin Lewis. On Saturday, the 23-year-old Sheffield university graduate will be taking part in the launch conference of Hands Off the People

Meet political campaigner Benjamin Lewis. On Saturday, the 23-year-old Sheffield university graduate will be taking part in the launch conference of Hands Off the People

Iranian women’s memoir is a growing genre and i am thinking of writing one. Here’s an opener. When I was growing up as a little

Inspired by Jake and Dinos Chapman, the Britart duo who caused a storm after defacing Goya etchings in 2003 — such as Insult to Injury,

AP news: Last night Israeli jets flying sorties around Natanz, Iran, accidentally targeted an orphanage, killing 30 people, 25 of whom were children. Hours later,

Don’t you miss the good old days when Noam Chomsky was a humble groundbreaking linguist? These days the MIT professor is increasingly an apologist for

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Ten years ago the Islamic Republic of Iran, in what many regarded as a charade, 'mulled' barring director Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry from the

I was lucky to get my old job back. He was hesitant at first, Arthur, who owns the shop, afraid that the media pack would

The bald patch on the back of my head resembles the shape of Iran. It's a patriotic patch, I tell my doctor, that reflects my

King Khamenei (for it is he): I hear the Greeks have made a film. Ahmadinejad: Tis true Sire. Apparently, it depicts us as a bunk

14 February 2007 I drop on my bed with my work clothes. Vowed never to do that, here I am, soaked in grease and kebabs.