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| Wed 8 Feb |
| The Eurocratic assault on democracy |
| In the eyes of the EU elite, the greatest impediment to ‘the European project’ is the continued existence of the pesky electorate. |
| by Bruno Waterfield
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| ‘Stop! You’re entering a restricted space!’ |
| spiked talks to the Londoner who campaigned to switch off a Robocop-style talking CCTV camera in Camden. |
| by Patrick Hayes
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| A sober reflection on ‘dangerous drinking’ |
| You’d have to be completely hammered to take seriously the government’s latest bizarre claims about booze. |
| by Timandra Harkness
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| Tue 7 Feb |
| Let’s veto the West’s moral posturing on Syria |
| There is more logic to Russia’s and China’s veto of the UN resolution condemning Assad than there is to William Hague’s sixth-former antics. |
| by Brendan O’Neill
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| A politician resigns and no one cares |
| The fall of Chris Huhne may have thrilled the Westminster village, but for the rest of us it barely registered. |
| by Tim Black
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| Circumnavigating the authorities |
| Why were the parents of the Dutch teen who sailed the world deemed incapable of deciding what's best for their child? |
| by Gabrielle Shiner
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| Mon 6 Feb |
| No Jubilee for republicans – or royalists |
| The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee throws the spotlight on royalty that is not very regal, and critics who are not really republican. |
| by Mick Hume
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| Turning public places into mourning spaces |
| If New York’s prospective AIDS memorial park is anything to go by, it seems 9/11 now infuses everything in this city. |
| by Nathalie Rothschild
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| The New Brazil vs anti-modern celebs |
| James Cameron and other wealthy Hollywooders are wrong if they think they can carry on bossing Brazil about. |
| by John Conroy
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| Fri 3 Feb |
| The corruption of American politics |
| From Occupy to the Tea Party, the obsession with corruption is far more damaging to democracy than politicians' alleged shady dealings. |
| by Sean Collins
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| Football’s thin-skinned culture of complaint |
| The willingness of fans to take offence risks destroying the freedom to engage in no-holds-barred terrace banter. |
| by Duleep Allirajah
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| Adapting Birdsong and finding gay footballers |
| This week, the long-awaited TV version of Faulks’ war epic was trumped by a surprisingly sweet invective against footie fans. |
| by David Bowden
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| If a film is this pretty, who cares if it’s true? |
| In Bombay Beach, Alma Har’el uses artistic licence to tell the melancholy tale of an abandoned wannabe boomtown. |
| by Tom Slater
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| Thu 2 Feb |
| Banker-bashers: a lynch mob with PhDs |
| The mad political pursuit of ‘evil’ Fred Goodwin confirms that bankers are to posh commentators what paedos are to tabloid hacks. |
| by Brendan O’Neill
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| All this carbon-cutting is a waste of energy |
| Neither Boris Johnson nor Ken Livingstone is willing to deliver the uninterrupted, cheap energy London needs. |
| by James Woudhuysen
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| Turning workplace worries into maladies |
| New guidelines suggesting bosses watch out for mental-health problems end up medicalising normal emotions. |
| by Para Mullan
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