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| Wednesday 1 July 2009 |
What next, ‘British women for British men’?
Brown’s promise of social housing for local people shows that he thinks the way to beat the BNP is to steal its policies.
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| Friday 26 June 2009 |
Travel can change the world? Get over yourself
At a time of so much doom and eco-gloom about foreign travel, Rick Steves puts an impassioned case for exploring the world. But his belief that travel is a political act means he ends up debasing both tourism and politics.
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| Thursday 25 June 2009 |
Listen to the world in Fès
PHOTO ESSAY: From African reggae to American gospel, a Moroccan festival showcases music from around the globe.
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| Thursday 18 June 2009 |
No longer master of the Middle East
Netanyahu’s public swipe at Obama’s Cairo speech reveals that Washington even has trouble influencing Israel today.
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| Wednesday 10 June 2009 |
Will the Pirates stir up the debate on freedom?
The support for Sweden’s Pirate Party was partly a protest vote against the mainstream, and partly a cry for liberty.
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| Wednesday 3 June 2009 |
At last, a boycott worth supporting
The UK University and College Union’s refusal to snoop on foreign students in Britain should be welcomed.
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| Friday 29 May 2009 |
A welfare state of mind
Andrew Brown’s Orwell Prize-winning book about fishing in Sweden casts slivers of light on how Sweden has changed and why its welfare state model is not something to emulate.
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| Thursday 14 May 2009 |
Mia Farrow: dieting for the cause
A narcissistic ‘hunger strike’ for Darfur is getting far more attention than protests without celebrity endorsement.
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| Wednesday 6 May 2009 |
Why we should smash this intellectual forcefield
Jacqui Smith’s desire to protect Britons from extremist foreigners is patronising, impractical and illiberal.
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| Monday 27 April 2009 |
More evidence that trafficking is a myth
A major Irish investigation has failed to find proof of people-smuggling, puncturing the ‘new slavery’ scare.
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| Tuesday 14 April 2009 |
Don’t close the door to Asian students
Demonising Pakistani students because a handful have been arrested as terror suspects is mad, bad and dangerous.
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| Wednesday 8 April 2009 |
‘Polish plumber’: you’ll miss him when he’s gone
News of migrants leaving recession-hit Britain has caused panic, even amongst those who didn’t welcome them when they first arrived.
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| Friday 27 March 2009 |
Self-obsessed blogger goes native in the Middle East
Seth Freedman’s collection of columns and anecdotes about his travels in Israel and Palestine is more a juvenile journey of self-discovery than an exercise in eyewitness reporting.
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| Wednesday 25 March 2009 |
The war between rights and responsibilities
Jack Straw’s new bill of rights is nothing like the Magna Carta: it would erode rather than enhance our liberty.
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| Thursday 19 March 2009 |
Gilad Shalit and the politics of weeping
On the one-thousandth day of his capture, the young soldier has become a symbol of Israel’s disorientation.
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| Tuesday 10 March 2009 |
The hidden dangers of the migrant amnesty
Boris Johnson’s proposal of an ‘earned amnesty’ for illegal immigrants sounds progressive. Until you read the small print.
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| Friday 27 February 2009 |
Stars in their eyes
Cosmo Landesman’s hilarious and compassionate memoir of growing up in a fame-obsessed, hippy household reveals more about celebrity culture than many a sociological tract.
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| Wednesday 18 February 2009 |
Warning! These photos may be useful to terrorists
PHOTO ESSAY: In defiance of a law making it a potential crime to photograph police, spiked went cop-snapping in London.
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| Thursday 12 February 2009 |
Israel and the new politics of insecurity
The Israeli elections confirm the death of grand Zionist visions and the rise of new forms of fearful separatism.
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| Thursday 5 February 2009 |
A secular witch-hunt in western England
In backing the suspension of a nurse who offered to pray for her patients, New Atheists have become the new inquisitors.
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