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Tuesday 31 January 2012	Letters


	Costa Concordia A vessel for anti-consumerist angst?


	Meat-eating An unhealthy pursuit?


	The policing of passion? Official anti-racism in football


	The war against rhetoric and bluster Is too much political language today debased?


	The Lawrence verdict A victory for justice?


	What’s wrong with ethical gifts? Are charity presents patronising or worse?


	Vaclav Havel’s Velvet Revolution Was the late Czech president’s rise to power a model for political change?


	Occupy London In cahoots with coppers?


	The death of Gary Speed Have campaigners and the media exploited the football star's death?


	David Scarboro The late actor’s father responds to spiked.


	Greece’s austerity regime A tyranny of technocrats?


	Taking a TV psychic to task Why do anti-bad science crusaders pick on easy targets?


	Banning kosher and halal slaughter An assault on religious freedom?


	A movement without direction? Debating the Occupy protests.


	Occupying the attention of too few Is the Occupy movement a minority pursuit?


	The 90-minute bigots The sectarian shame of Scottish football?


	Rugby Union A toff's game played by thugs?


	Occupy London The birth of something new?


	Packaging in the UK Are we drowning in superfluous wrapping?


	Civilising civil society It is not a job for the political elite.


	Amanda Knox Created by a vindictive prosecution.


	The tyrants of Wall Street… Or representatives of the 99 per cent?


	‘Foxy Knoxy’ The product of a culture war?


	Occupy Wall Street A bunch of whiny, teenage despots?


	Dale Farm Who is afraid of the Travellers?


	Climate change Is there a consensus?


	The expansion of mental illness Is everyday behaviour being medicalised?


	Schooling the rioters Did the educational flattery of the young contribute to the riots?


	Understanding the riots Should we be looking at the role of the state?


	The cause of the riots Can it really be all down to Thatcher?


	Tallis’s critique of neuromania and Darwinitis Against scientism or against science?


	The rioters and looters A welfare-state mob?


	The Enfield anti-riot vigilantes Racist louts or just protecting their community?


	Climate-change short stories You couldn't make it up


	The Norway massacre Europe's 11 September


	Climate change A UN peace and security issue?


	Defending press freedom Or just defending Murdoch?


	The end of the News of the world Readers respond...


	Fibbing about Fukushima Did greens play up the Fukushima accident?


	Internships The new slavery?


	Myths about HE and economic growth Is the economic justification for universities ruining their content?


	Nothing but a monster? Father Kit and the child abuse revelations.


	Animal experimentation Can it be justified?


	The Pipe A fair portrait of the north Mayo opposition to Shell?


	Slutwalk A prudish exercise in hypocrisy?


	The response to the economic crisis Forget Plan B, is there even a Plan A?


	Grayling’s New College for the Humanities Why is there so much outrage towards it?


	LIFE and the Sexual Health Forum Life’s Niall Gooch responds to Ann Furedi of BPAS.


	The prospective trial of Ratko Mladic A chance for the West to relive past 'glories'?


	Australia The world's leading nanny state?


	Protests in Spain More than an emotional spasm?


	Sympathy for bin Laden Hypocritical and nihilistic?


	The tyranny of science? Atkins and Dawkins do not speak for all scientists.


	The right to protest Are right-wing groups excluded?


	Killing Osama Was it wrong of the US to kill bin Laden?


	Alternative voting A democratic case against AV?


	Anti-Tesco protests in Bristol An outbreak of the middle-class malady, Tescophobia?


	‘Piss Christ’ A brave artistic statement?


	Grayling’s Good Book More soul-destroying than anything in the original Good Book?


	Better, harder working MPs A convincing case for AV?


	Nuclear power Clean, powerful, reliable?


	University education denigrated Should education quality be sacrificed for student quantity?


	Remembering Yuri Gagarin Do we lack his daring today?


	Moaners or slaves Should interns be paid?


	Liking U2, hating Bono Can the music be separated from the man?


	The killing of Ronan Kerr An act of the zombie IRA?


	Defending public libraries Too little, too late?


	Intervening in Libya A humanitarian act?


	The Alternative Vote Will it lead to bland, ‘lukewarm’ politics?


	The attack on Libya The barbarism of buffoons?


	Libya after UN resolution 1973 Has the West just made things worse?


	More Midsomer madness Does Midsomer Murders need to 'reflect multicultural reality'?


	The Fukishima nuclear crisis A bad case of media scaremongering?


	The Libya no-fly zone Will it undermine the Libyan people's freedom struggle?


	Proportional Represention It doesn’t necessarily undermine democracy.


	For God’s sake Is the BHA’s census campaign intolerant?


	The UK referendum on the voting system Is AV really preferable to first past the post?


	‘I was born this way’ Going Gaga over genetic determinism.


	Scientific intolerance Should quacks be allowed freedom of speech too?


	Giving prisoners the vote A better idea than it’s given credit for?


	The Kenneth Tong anorexia tweets Did he deserve to be silenced?


	The English Defence League An easy target for a left without a cause?


	The Dog Ban A necessary response to a damaging habit?


	Gary Moore (1952 – 2011) A fitting obitutary?


	The problem with multiculturalism Is tolerance to blame for contemporary non-judgmentalism?


	The People’s Supermarket A welcome alternative to Tesco?


	Egypt What next for the uprising?


	Top Gear’s Mexican slurs A nasty case of casual racism?


	Vicious rumours about Egyptians Do stories of beheaded mummies confirm Western prejudices?


	Tommy Sheridan’s perjury conviction A disgrace to justice?


	Taking sides over climate change A case of science versus anti-science?


	The Gray and Keys sexism row A threat to everyone’s privacy?


	The phone-hacking affair Is the response endangering press freedom?


	The nudge state An assault on our moral autonomy?


	Tunisian uprising Was it really a 'wikileaks revolution'?


	Should Glenn Beck be silenced? The campaign against right-wing 'shock jocks'.


	Tuition fees Do people have a right to be a scholar?


	Tucson shootings Is the Tea Party's rhetoric really to blame?


	Snow crisis 2010 While the elites obsess about global warming people shiver.


	The EU vs Hungary The clash of the censors?

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