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Against the evidence

  • 18 September 2008
  • 190 comments

Richard Wilson on the crucial difference between doubt and dogmatism

All in the game

  • 11 September 2008

Breaking rules is wrong, but who sets them in the first place?

Songs of freedom

  • 04 September 2008
  • 2 comments

Paul Evans on why music poses a threat to tyrants and overbearing governments

Good news is no news

  • 28 August 2008

How can we be optimistic when we crave the negative?

Small steps to wider détente

  • 21 August 2008

Umberto Eco meditates on localised truces as a strategy to inspire broader peace

Supreme misnomers

  • 14 August 2008
  • 1 comment

In a semantic mess, wanting the best has become "elitist"

Truth is awkward

  • 07 August 2008

Barbara Gunnell on why we prize honesty, yet hate to challenge those who lie

Power and wisdom

  • 31 July 2008

What could an ex-slave teach Hadrian? Quite a lot, actually

Here comes everybody

  • 24 July 2008
  • 1 comment

The internet ensures even "crackpot" theories are aired. Good, thinks Elaine Morgan

The one and the many

  • 17 July 2008
  • 1 comment

What makes a "people"? That's a tricky question to answer...

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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Was the government wrong to sack David Nutt?

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