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Controversial author Laura María Agustín tells spiked that those dedicated to combating the sex industry have criminalised migrant workers. |
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Mick Hume
Your home is not your (bouncy) castle
Why the high court ruling that parents can be liable for injuries sustained on inflatables is a danger to all of us - read Mick Hume’s columns in The Times (London).
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| Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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Jennie Bristow
Abortion: 24 reasons to defend 24 weeks
A Tory MP has unveiled 20 reasons why the time limit for abortion should be lowered to 20 weeks. Here are 24 reasons why it should stay as it is.
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Stuart Derbyshire
Abortion: get out the vote
An academic offers tips on how you can pressure your MP to turn up to Tuesday’s vote in parliament and defend the 24-week limit.
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Tim Black
Mrs Blair’s confessional incontinenceIn Downing Street she invoked the ‘right to privacy’ to keep the press at bay. Now she’s vomiting up details about her life as a mum and PM’s wife. |
Nathalie Rothschild
The death of the ‘Zionist dream’Contrary to the caricature of Israel as an expansionist and arrogant aggressor, the 60-year-old nation is suffering a severe identity crisis. |
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| Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
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Frank Furedi
Crusaders in search of a crusade
From Burma to China to Austria, why do Western observers always seek signs of human depravity? PLUS: Brendan O’Neill on ‘news as porn’.
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| Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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Mick Hume
Israel is not what it was
Through 60 years of turmoil, only one thing remains constant: there can still be no external solution for the Middle East.
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Rob Lyons
Seasonal food only?
F*** off, GordonToilet-mouthed celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has suggested we should only eat food ‘in season’. That would mean letting Nature tell us what to do. |
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| Monday 12 May 2008 |
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Frank Furedi
Let’s turn a new page in the world of reading
Teaching children that books are mere resources to be ‘consumed’ is having a baleful impact on reading, culture and the quality of public life.
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Kirk Leech
Burma: a deluge of moral posturingWestern governments seem more concerned with lecturing the Rangoon regime than offering assistance to those hit by Cyclone Nargis. |
Philip Hammond
An iron fist in a velvet gloveIron Man, the latest Marvel superhero story to get a big-screen outing, captures the crisis and contradictions in ‘humanitarian militarism’. |
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