Ben Farren looks at the underlying issues that the rise of IS has brought to the forefront of Western strategy

Iraqi-born Hassan al-Sherbaz has lived in the UK half his life, attended both primary and secondary school in this country, but has been told he must pay full international fees if he wants to study Chemical Engineering at Imperial College

Jack Lunn thinks that Clint Eastwood’s Oscar-nominated film is a solid war drama that fully deserves its wide acclaim

Andrew Williams pays tribute to “the greatest polemicist of this or any generation”

Alastair Campbell opens up about phone hacking, the coalition government and, inevitably, Iraq

Features Editor Nick Renaud-Komiya meets a University of Manchester student and former Royal Marine to talk prejudice, politics and parenthood.