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| Tuesday 20 January 2009 |
Demythologise dyslexia
By medicalising reading problems, we suggest to children that they can’t overcome their difficulties.
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| Thursday 11 September 2008 |
Why I’ve got a beef with going vegetarian
After policing how we shop, holiday and dispose of waste, now environmental bigwigs want to turn us into eco-veggies.
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| Monday 14 July 2008 |
If you can’t inspire them, bribe them
In offering iPods to people who vote, the New Labour government is taking its cue from the Fidel Castro School of Public Engagement.
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| Thursday 27 December 2007 |
Why I've no appetite for the Fife Diet
A 'small, grassroots movement' has sprung up in Scotland based on eating only food produced nearby. Local boy James Panton is appalled.
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| Tuesday 20 November 2007 |
Giving thanks to America this Thanksgiving
Microsoft, fast food, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment (the one on bearing arms): should we be grateful to the US for these things?
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| Thursday 16 August 2007 |
Let us celebrate the freedom of flight
There’s more to manmade flight than the spewing of CO2 molecules: flying is liberating and enlightening, and that’s why millions of us do it.
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| Monday 4 June 2007 |
The dislexia sceptik is onn to sumthing
Academic and supposed dyslexic James Panton thinks the professor who describes dyslexia as a 'social fig leaf' for the middle classes has a point.
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| Tuesday 28 November 2006 |
Time to stop monkeying around
One supporter of vivisection says a BBC documentary revealed the benefits of animal research - and the need for tough arguments to defend it.
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| Thursday 5 October 2006 |
Infantilising students
'Good behaviour contracts' for university students undermine the informal relations that make higher education possible.
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| Tuesday 16 May 2006 |
Animal research: extremists are not the problem
Tony Blair has signed up against anti-vivisection agitators - but that is not the same thing as signing up for vivisection.
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| Tuesday 2 May 2006 |
Stand up for animal research
The online People’s Petition supporting vivisection is a bold and positive initiative. If only it didn’t offer supporters the option to remain anonymous.
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| Tuesday 18 April 2006 |
Animal rights protesters: don’t ban them, beat them
A leading member of the pro-vivisection group Pro-Test argues that animal rights activists should be defeated through debate, not legal injunctions.
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| Thursday 5 August 2004 |
Can’t read, won’t read
'Dyslexia' is becoming a catch-all excuse for poor work.
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| Wednesday 14 January 2004 |
Selling out universities
Having accepted the marketisation of higher education, critics of top-up fees have lost the argument.
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| Tuesday 15 July 2003 |
Stressing out students
Students are encouraged to experience university challenges as traumas.
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