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For the left, the challenge is to avoid approaching problems as though we are passive targets for economic forces.
Greece is caught in a vicious debt cycle that leads to a perpetual need for stimulus.
Welcome to the world of synthetic biology.
An image of elitism still hovers around classical music - but the Proms have a democratic history that ought to be celebrated.
Asked if the cross-dressing potter Grayson Perry could join the fun, the DMA’s general secretary, Dave Hopper, replied: “We’ve got nee problem with him. It’s the Labour f***ers we never see that I object to.”
Liz Kendall may well be Labour's Ken Clarke, and Jeremy Corbyn could yet be the party's IDS.
It has been hard, over the years, to explain to western readers and viewers the deep contradictions of Iran.
Bad blood between teams may provide a short-term boost but it also brings with it a longer-term popular disengagement. Thankfully, the opposite is happening within English cricket.
Will poking around in the embers of Irish history rekindle old flames?
Harry Lambert interviews Yanis Varoufakis, hero of the Greek left.
It seems like a great time to be a woman in politics - but the fact that childless women are vilified as selfish, while so few mothers make it to the top, reveals an uncomfortable truth about how far we still have to go to achieve equality.
How acting leader's Harriet Harman's stance on welfare cuts became a battle for the soul of the party.
As in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières’s subject in this new novel is love and war.
Does culture exist in a vacuum? This “love letter to creative thievery” would suggest not.
There is an important and necessary book waiting to be written on this subject – but this isn't it.
This book paints a wonderfully accurate picture – sometimes painfully so – of the inner workings of the BBC: its high hopes and petty jealousies, its triumphs and disasters.
Psychoanalyst Josh Cohen untangles our complex "ways of being" in an overwhelmingly digital world.
How do we talk about Go Set a Watchman? Does its existence diminish To Kill a Mockingbird? How does it stand in relation to that text?
Better to give the viewer a quiet moment to absorb such horror than to attempt to underline it with one’s own feelings.
“I think a popular movement might arise from this to take action and lead to new politics!” thrilled a guest on Athens International Radio.
There's a struggle at the heart of Ant-Man between the corporate and the eccentric.
On James Francis Horrabin.
Whatever her motivations – and whether she had even been aware of them – she had been hastening his demise.
Eventually, we will have to recognise that it is not “nature” that we need to protect, but ourselves.
My only consolation, as I now wonder what on earth I am going to put my Marmite on besides my finger, is that Mousie will have burst like a balloon with the amount he has eaten.
The only possible course for the ethical meat-eater is to accept that our diet, in common with so many other of our lifestyle choices, is a matter of what we feel comfortable with, and to leave it at that.
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