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Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

Can Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial by Clive Webb rescue Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s activism from

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London. 

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.