In comics, novels and films, the modern cult of the 'New Gothic' reveals a keen hunger for non-religious rebirth.
Breivik: 'I admit the acts, but not to criminal guilt. I do not plead guilty, I was acting in self-defence'
Tuesday 17 April 2012
There was only one dramatic moment when Anders Behring Breivik seemed to crack yesterday.
German museum ordered to return Nazi-seized art to Jewish owner's American son
Friday 16 March 2012
Not to return posters taken on Goebbels' orders 'would perpetuate Nazi injustice'
Kim Sengupta: Afghan killings are a boost for the insurgents – and for Karzai
Monday 12 March 2012
The recent deaths in Afghanistan have been used for the expediencies of realpolitik
Republican race is as good as won, claims Romney
Thursday 08 March 2012
Mitt Romney's campaign team claimed yesterday that election wins in six out of 10 US states on "Super Tuesday" mean none of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination can beat him.
Romney's gains set to bring pain for Republicans
Thursday 08 March 2012
He triumphed on Super Tuesday – just. But doubts are growing that the front-runner can make it all the way to the White House
Katherine Butler: We'll always need the Marie Colvins
Thursday 23 February 2012
David Flatman: OK, no Grewcocks. But don't write off this relentless pack
Sunday 19 February 2012
Opera to mark Hitler's birthday met with chorus of disapproval
Saturday 04 February 2012
Berlin opera house forced to reschedule Wagner work that inspired Nazi leader
Manuel Fraga: Politician who survived Spain's post-Franco transition to democracy
Wednesday 25 January 2012
For more than 60 years, Manuel Fraga was a giant of Spanish politics who started out as a high-profile figure in the second period of Franco's regime and then made an opportunistic transformation in the post-Franco political arena.
Tom Hodgkinson: 'We took a TV home. I admit I am weak'
Sunday 15 January 2012
The television is back. Five years ago, in a fit of anti-capitalist pique, I unplugged this instrument of Beezlebub. I decided that I didn't want all its horrors flooding into the family home. I didn't want The X-Factor, CBeebies, Dick and Dom, the Ten O'Clock News or the dreary gloom of EastEnders. Mr Murdoch and his evil ways could stay out of my house for ever. Like Plato, I decided to banish the playwrights and their portrayal of negative character traits from my ideal Republic. My children would grow up unsullied by the false promises of consumerism. Instead, they'd learn useful skills, carpentry and violin.
Album: Various artists, East of Underground: Hell Below (Now Again)
Sunday 08 January 2012
More historical curiosity than essential listening, EOU gathers four acts (East of Underground, Soap, The Black Seeds, and the Sound Trek) made up of US draftees stationed in Germany as the Vietnam War fizzled to an end.
British voice behind a call to arms for Somalia's Islamic terrorists
Tuesday 03 January 2012
Video reports of al-Shabaab battles with Somali forces feature jihadist with London accent
Turkey hits back over French bill
Thursday 22 December 2011
Turkey has retaliated against France after MPs there passed a bill to make it a crime to deny the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 by Ottoman Turks amounted to genocide.







