This week, Gavin Francis talked to Little Atoms to talk about his new book Adventures in Human and writing a topographical guide to the body, we learned about Hizb ut-Tahrir, what they believe and why they shouldn’t be banned, why we need a new Magna Carta and how the architecture of Kazakhstan’s capital could have been designed by budgies
We’ve also spent a lot of time gearing up for Alternative Magna Carta festival on Saturday the 13th of June in Clerkenwell, London, where Little Atoms will be Imagining the Medieval Mind with our very own Neil Denny and authors Naomi Alderman and David Flusfeder, exploring Sex, Death Religion and Politics in Clerkenwell with Scott Wood, discussing new politics with Zoe Williams and Dawn Foster, listening to historian Ted Vallance on English Radicals and chatting to Suzanne Moore about the politics of identity. Tickets are only £5 - see you all there!
Hizb ut-Tahrir wants to overthrow democratic states and establish a global Caliphate. But banning the Islamist group would be a sign of failure.
Our fabulous friends explain how weather satellites work in this excellent animation
As society grows ever more divided between rich and poor, do we need a new charter for Britain? And what would it contain?
The architecture of oil-rich autocracies always strikes the same note
TIL: When you have a kidney transplant, it makes for a more complicated operation to remove the defective kidney, so they just plumb a third kidney into an available space above your hip bone.
