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When people in Derry rose up to challenge their sectarian rulers, they were written-off and ignored by a British left fiercely loyal to the state. |
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Patrick West
Premium-rate stupidityParticipants in rigged phone-in votes and flawed viewer competitions deserve no sympathy. Everyone knows it’s a mug’s game. |
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Mick Hume
Cannabis: Class ‘B’ for boring
Why the one thing duller than a dopehead is the reclassification debate: read Mick Hume’s columns in The Times (London).
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| Thursday 8 May 2008 |
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| Wednesday 7 May 2008 |
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Baum and Ernst
Trick or treatment? The truth about homeopathy
Continuing our debate on ‘The Best and Worst of Medicine’, Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst call for homeopathy to be put in the sin bin of history.
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Rob Johnston
New Labour’s schizo policy on cannabisThe government is happier punishing cannabis users than admitting it cannot inspire youth to do something more interesting than get stoned. |
Nathalie Rothschild
You can’t impose ‘free speech’ on peopleIf the Turkish government’s tiny amendment to Article 301 is anything to go by, EU pressure for reform is making Turkey less free, not more. |
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| Tuesday 6 May 2008 |
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Mick Hume
You can’t revive a corpse
Forget the talk of Labour ‘renewal’ - its humiliation in the elections should mark the funeral rites for a party that died 25 years ago.
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Brendan O’Neill
Will the real Boris please stand up? Contrary to what you might have read, the blonde buffoon and new mayor of London is neither a friend of liberty nor an evil Thatcherite. |
Tim Black
Guilt-tripping the feckless electorateLondon Elects plastered the city with patronising posters imploring people to vote, unwittingly revealing the elite’s hateful view of the public. |
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| Friday 2 May 2008 |
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Frank Furedi
My 1968
‘Anything is possible!’ we cried. Yet was it radicalism from below or crisis at the top of society that provoked the Sixties upheaval?
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Patrick West
Trash TV, trash people?There’s one thing that the liberal left and the conservative right share in common: they hate soap operas and the stupid people who watch them. |
Duleep Allirajah
When footballers attack!The ‘Battle of the Buffet’, the ‘Battle of the Bridge’, China vs QPR... if there's one thing football fans enjoy more than a goal, it’s a mass brawl. |
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