And finds that mild criticism is on a level with terrorism.… Read the rest
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Lakoff’s Vocabulary Overhaul as Road to Victory 
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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Just get the frames right, and everyone will finally understand.… Read the rest
Morality Police Enforce ‘Islamic Values’ in Gaza
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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Woman murdered for walking on beach with sister and fiance.… Read the rest
Margaret Drabble on Amber Reeves
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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Fabian daughter of Fabian mother, adult education teacher, writer, activist, more.… Read the rest
What’s Up With Bloomsburyland?
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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How to analyse Woolf’s inner life when that is impossible.… Read the rest
What’s Up With Poetry?
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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Eleven poets discuss recent swingeing attack on the current state of poetry.… Read the rest
Arab Feminists on Women’s Rights
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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Laws permit beating and caging within four walls, allow them to be bought and sold.… Read the rest
Tories Propose More ‘Faith’ Schools
Apr 13th, 2005 |
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Where the young can ask big questions and get damn fool answers.… Read the rest
Papa Boys Whoop it up at Rome Bash
Apr 12th, 2005 |
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The new religion of celebrity worship at work.… Read the rest
More Scary Doesn’t Mean More Likely
Apr 12th, 2005 |
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When that supervolcano erupts we’ll be at the mercy of bullies with melanomas.… Read the rest
An Epistemologically Instructive Experience
Apr 12th, 2005 |
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Suave and sinuous prose now preening and overelaborate; fearless cheekiness now truculent bravado.… Read the rest
Papal Obsequies
Apr 11th, 2005 8:34 pm | By Ophelia BensonI usually like David Aaronovitch’s columns (even though, or perhaps because, they sometimes make me squirm slightly – not enough to rattle the chair, but enough to rearrange a few dust particles), but I take issue with something in this one. It’s about the pope and the ructions last week, and what to make of it.
… Read the restThe cover of last week’s New Statesman, for example, proclaims of the dead Pope that ‘he did more to spread Aids in Africa than prostitution and the trucking industry combined’. By opposing the use of condoms, the argument went, the church had created intense and unnecessary suffering.
But this won’t do, either. The church has only succeeded in Africa by tolerating polygamy, and,
Postal Voting Makes Intimidation Easier
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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Particularly of women by men, Nick Cohen points out.… Read the rest
Victim of Bullying Sues Posh School
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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A school tradition for boys to hit with cricket stumps, billiard cues, belts.… Read the rest
Andrea Dworkin 1946-2005
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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Feminist activist and writer.… Read the rest
Lynn Margulis on Ernst Mayr
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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An appreciation of Harvard’s visionary of modern evolutionary synthesis.… Read the rest
Roger Kimball on ‘On Bullshit’
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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Bullshitter as performance artist, keener to make an impression than tell the truth.… Read the rest
Malaria, DDT, Africa, the Environment
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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Is DDT the best way to prevent malaria? … Read the rest
Quebec Government: Sharia Out of the Question
Apr 11th, 2005 |
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`Door is closed and will remain closed,’ justice minister says.… Read the rest
