by Laurie Penny

Today's monotheistic patriarchal desert religions were not designed with the Internet in mind. In the sandy days of yore when Isaac and Ishmael were going their separate ways across Canaan, a RAM was something you sacrificed and Google was the noise that your enemies made as you slit their throats for worshipping the local animal deities. It’s safe to say that the ancient prophets probably didn’t envision their followers, three millennia on, hacking out their politics in the comments threads of liberal websites.

Graham Kirby on why the UK's Equality Bill is good news for everyone – even white men

As Gordon Brown at this year’s Labour Party conference praised the proposed Equality Bill as one which will change Britain forever, the BBC’s cameras panned in on a beaming (and apparently “brilliant”) Minister for Equality Harriet Harman. What the camera did not (in fact could not) capture was the rustle around Middle England as the hated Harman once again became the focus of grievance.

With two ultra-right wing political parties in India and the UK making an electoral breakthrough, Priyal Sanghavi compares both cases to examine if fascism is making a comeback

by Eamonn Dwyer

‘What is your name?’

‘Why do you need my name?’

‘Because I am calling the police.’

‘About what?’

‘Because you are a racist.’