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| Thu 24 May |
| Scrap this anti-social meddling in our lives |
| Theresa May's souped-up successors to ASBOs will further diminish communities' ability to reprimand their local reprobates. |
| by Patrick Hayes
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| A proud Chelsea ‘unsupporter’ till I die |
| Some supported vulgar, nouveau riche Chelsea in the Champions League final out of patriotism. Palace fans didn’t. |
| by Duleep Allirajah
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| Camping it up behind the Iron Curtain |
| Yes, host nation Azerbaijan is authoritarian, but boycotting the Eurovision won't fix that. So go crazy and sing along. |
| by Rob Lyons
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| Wed 23 May |
| It’s time to get serious about opposing the EU |
| Anyone who really wants to tackle the anti-democratic EU must first distance himself from the new clique of infantile Brussels-bashers. |
| by Brendan O’Neill
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| An energy policy for dimwits |
| The UK government’s new energy strategy is about muddling through, not powering society forward. |
| by Rob Lyons
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| How smokers’ rights are being vapourised |
| The anti-smoking lobby has now targeted electronic cigarettes in order to crack down even on the ‘notion’ of smoking. |
| by Jason Walsh
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| Tue 22 May |
| Don’t let these killjoys kill the Olympic spirit |
| From talk of terrorism and crime to claims that London will become a ‘hotbed of diseases’, why is officialdom so down on the Olympics? |
| by Tim Black
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| The Dictator: satirising America |
| Sacha Baron Cohen’s rollicking comedy about a tinpot tyrant is more a send-up of Americans than Arabs. |
| by Nathalie Rothschild
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| Bringing new life to dead matter |
| Human beings have the potential to transform the universe, so let’s not lose sleep about turning it into ‘grey goo’. |
| by Colin McInnes
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| Mon 21 May |
| Parental determinism: a most harmful prejudice |
| David Cameron’s proposed parenting classes are built on the bizarre and destructive idea that parenting determines society’s fortunes. |
| by Frank Furedi
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| Time magazine did not invent the mommy wars |
| A cover image of a mother breastfeeding her four-year-old has aroused ire, but debates about parenting aren’t new. |
| by Nancy McDermott
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| When red tape is a good thing |
| Ignore social workers’ claims about red tape costing lives – it shouldn’t be easy for the state to intervene in family life. |
| by Ken McLaughlin
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| Parenting: you learn it on the job |
| The government wants to take anxiety out of parenting, but suffering anxiety is crucial to becoming a good parent. |
| by Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
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| Fri 18 May |
| UK cultural policy: using art to divide us |
| By promoting diversity through culture, UK policymakers have ignored precisely what makes art so valuable: its universality. |
| by Dolan Cummings
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| It’s not too late to cross The Bridge |
| An autistic investigator, a grisly murder, sleek furniture: The Bridge has all you’d expect from Scandi thrillers. |
| by David Bowden
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| The end of the United Empire? |
| Don’t blame the ‘noisy neighbours’ at City, the real problem for United is they’ve lost their all-conquering aura. |
| by Duleep Allirajah
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| Does it matter if you’re black or white? |
| The deaths of culture-defying musicians Adam Yauch and Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn are a reminder of music's skin-tone sensitivities. |
| by Patrick West
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