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How the rich starved the world
- By Mark Lynas
- 17 April 2008
World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol. Plus Iain Macwhirter on how food prices are rocketing
Helping Elisabeth Fritzl
- By Anne Carpenter
- 30 April 2008
Top psychologist Anne Carpenter - a specialist in helping adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse - explains the sort of issues faced by Austrian cellar captive Elisabeth Fritzl
Gender and agendas
- By Viv Groskop
- 27 March 2008
The Sexual Paradox: Troubled Boys, Gifted Girls and the Real Difference Between the Sexes
Susan Pinker Atlantic Books, 336pp, £12.99
''Jesus will appear again as judge of the world and the dead will be raised''
- By Sholto Byrnes
- 10 April 2008
Tom Wright's literal belief in the Resurrection makes him a hero to conservative Christians worldwide. Here he declares war on militant atheists and liberals, and explains why heaven is not the end of the world
Revolutions all round
- By Owen Hatherley
- 01 May 2008
Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries (1915-1922) - Behind the Mask
Edited by Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber, 784pp, £30
Has global warming stopped?
- By David Whitehouse
- 19 December 2007
'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'. Plus read Mark Lynas's response
Everything you want to know about the bank crisis
- By Iain Macwhirter
- 01 May 2008
As the financial crisis enters what the governor of the Bank of England has called a "new and dangerous phase" Iain Macwhirter has been looking at the big questions
Has global warming really stopped?
- By Mark Lynas
- 14 January 2008
Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped
Latin America: the attack on democracy
- By John Pilger
- 24 April 2008
John Pilger argues that an unreported war is being waged by the US to restore power to the privileged classes at the expense of the poor
Disfigured by class
- By Martin O'Neill
- 30 April 2008
The very fact that Boris Johnson could appear to be a plausible candidate for Mayor of London shows us that our society is still disfigured by problems of social class, argues Martin O'Neill
Most popular articles in the last 6 months
Has global warming stopped?
- By David Whitehouse
- 19 December 2007
'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001'. Plus read Mark Lynas's response
How the rich starved the world
- By Mark Lynas
- 17 April 2008
World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol. Plus Iain Macwhirter on how food prices are rocketing
Happy Newton Day!
- By Richard Dawkins
- 13 December 2007
December 25th is a date to celebrate not because it is the disputed birthday of the "son of God" but because it is the actual birthday of one of the world's greatest men
Unity Mitford and 'Hitler's baby'
- By Martin Bright
- 13 December 2007
As war broke out, Hitler admirer Unity Mitford made a botched suicide attempt and was invalided home. But how come she ended up in a maternity home?
Why life is good
- By Matthew Taylor
- 03 January 2008
A dangerous gap exists between our personal experience, which is mainly happy, and our view of a society in decline
Has global warming really stopped?
- By Mark Lynas
- 14 January 2008
Mark Lynas responds to a controversial article on newstatesman.com which argued global warming has stopped
The myth of trafficking
- By Brendan O'Neill
- 27 March 2008
Most migrant women, including those in the sex industry, have made a clear decision, says a new study, to leave home and take their chances abroad. They are not "passive victims" in need of "saving" or sending back by western campaigners.
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
Laura María Agustín Zed Books, 224pp, £16.99
Accidental hero
- By David Marquand
- 06 December 2007
For 150 years, John Stuart Mill has been the intellectual icon of the British left - but his ideas address few of the problems we face today.
Wild, wild east
- By Lucy Ash
- 29 November 2007
Soviet-era cowboy films have inspired politicians, writers and cosmonauts alike
Obama unmasked
- By Andrew Stephen
- 10 January 2008
What's going wrong for the man who would be president? Our US editor Andrew Stephen reports from Washington. Plus Joe Treasure among California's Clinton lovers
