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Culture and the credit crunch

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“The greatest liar”

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“One has a duty to explore one’s place in the world”

Nadeem Aslam on optimism, orthodoxy and the origins of radicalism

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Foucault v Rikers Island

Discipline and Punish debunked

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Potter’s final frontier

The boy wizard conquers religion

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Seher Hussain

Culture and the credit crunch

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“The greatest liar”

“One has a duty to explore one’s place in the world”

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