By Fatin Abbas

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas argues that the uprisings that have erupted across north Africa and the Middle East in recent months attest to the visionary power of Fanon's work and to its enduring relevance.

By Sunder Katwala

Prime Minister David Cameron will give a major speech about immigration this morning. It has been heavily briefed to the media as a tough intervention, so is splashed in that fashion on the Telegraph (Cameron: immigration threatens our way of life) Daily Mail (Mass migration has divided our society and Guardian (Immigrants should speak English) front-pages, and reported in the Independent (PM talks tough) too.

By Vivek H Dehejia

If you could be transported back in time, whom would you rather have dinner with: Gandhi or Jinnah? The question struck me while I was reflecting on the recent controversy that’s erupted in India on the latest book on Gandhi and on similar controversies that have dogged books on Jinnah on both sides of the border in recent years. Was Gandhi gay? Should we care? Was Jinnah secular? Was Gandhi secular, for that matter? Did each do more harm than good to the countries they helped give birth to? These questions, once heretical, still politically dangerous, could be questions one could put to these great men over dinner, if the time travel gods of science fiction cooperated.

By Dan Smith

Now the war has started, which side are you on? Should the intervention stop because the war will be long and bloody? Which means that instead the war will be short, Qaddafi will be victorious, and the aftermath will be bloody – probably as bloody as the war.