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Is it a pig or a mouse pig?

Does the public have the right to know about genetically modified meat?


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Greeks resigned to tightening belts

"Either we eradicate the debt, or the debt will eliminate the country," says the Prime Minister.


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Some bright ideas just don’t work

The contribution of atheism to the sum of the world’s happiness has been very meagre indeed.


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The gathering storm

The scandal of sexual abuse by priests in Europe is distracting us from an even bigger scandal in the future, one which the media helped to create.


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Lessons from the twilight days of the liberal consensus

An inspiring candidate has become a failing president. But a comparison with Lyndon B Johnson shows that the reasons for this outcome are more than personal.



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The English Marriage

A spirited gallop through several hundred years of love, money and adultery.


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Never waste a good crisis

The economic woes of Greece and other spendthrift countries have given Germany greater power in the EU.


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Bloodbath or bad blood?

Terrifying massacres in Nigeria are not a sign of a clash between the Christian and Muslim worlds.


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Facing up to grown-up responsibilities

Facebook has 400 million users. How responsible is it for the behaviour of its growing number of vandals and thugs?


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A crime, a jury, a trial and Facebook

How a law student used Facebook to educate her friends about abortion.


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Dignity offered up on the altar of technology

Full body scanners take away privacy, modesty and dignity. Do we have blind faith in technology?


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Riled by the R-word

Disabled people need all the support we can give them. They don't need ideologues who teach that disability is a social construct.



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Privacy online .... is non-existent. Just get over it. | New York Times

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The Case for Unpopular Clients Semands to name the 'al Qaeda seven' weaken the country's democratic ideals and an honourable tradition of fearless advocacy. | Wall Street Journal

The top 20 most annoying book reviewer cliches and how to use them all in one meaningless review They're all here. | Examiner

Vocabulary Size "Groak" means staring silently at someone while they eat. So I should be impressed? | New York Times

Take This Job and Write It Why are there so few novels about the world of work? | New York Times

Rescuers, Not Invaders The strange history of failed attempts to resist Islam's spread | Wall Street Journal

How I found God and peace with my atheist brother Why Peter Hitchens believes and Christopher doesn't | Mail on Sunday

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