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With Republicans pandering to the hard right and Democrats labelling their liberal critics ‘retards’, the US political scene is in a weird state of stasis. |
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| Friday 5 February 2010 |
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Sean Collins
The politico-porn behind the presidential race
From libidinous Bill and crazy Hillary to the narcissistic John Edwards, Game Change shines a glorious, gossipy light on American politics.
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| Thursday 4 February 2010 |
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Brendan O’Neill
The IPCC: a Vatican for the twenty-first century?
The problem with the IPCC is not that some of its science is dodgy, but the fact that it elevates science per se above politics and democracy.
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| Wednesday 3 February 2010 |
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Jennie Bristow
‘We’re afraid of our kids, and we’re afraid for them’
Anthony Horowitz, author of the bestselling teenage spy novels, talks to Jennie Bristow about vetting and the poisoning of adult-child relations.
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Nathalie Rothschild
Stop perverting Anne Frank’s diaryBanning the diary from schools because she wrote about sex is bizarre. But so are the attempts to turn it into a guide to life. |
Jason Walsh
Why Ireland needs a new politics
The farcical devolution talks at Stormont should remind us of the need to replace the exhausted institutions, both north and south.
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| Tuesday 2 February 2010 |
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Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
The war on Dr Wakefield: only 12 years too late
Yes, Dr Andrew Wakefield’s MMR-autism theory was dishonest, but he’s not the only one to blame for the great vaccine scare of the past 12 years.
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| Monday 1 February 2010 |
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Mick Hume
Why don’t they just hang Blair and have done with it?
The shrillness and rank stupidity of the anti-Blair hysteria around the Iraq inquiry echoes the way Saddam was monstered to justify the war.
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Brendan O’Neill
Why Elizabeth Wilmshurst is not my hero
Trusting lawyers to decide when wars are illegal also means trusting them to decide when wars are legal. That’s called tyranny.
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