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Is it up to Jamie Oliver to say how women should breastfeed?
When men make statements about breastfeeding, they are making assumptions about where and to whom a woman should direct her energies, with no consideration of the personal cost. Imagine if feeding...
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The 50-second film challenge: the best movies that last under a minute
Competition entrants had precisely 50 days to shoot and upload a 50-second film that incorporated in some form the number 50. To Truro, in Cornwall, for the 50-Second Film Challenge, in which the...
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We trust British politicians with third terms. So why not African ones?
We don't see a third term as a danger sign when it's Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair - so why do we see it as one in the Congo? The presidential election in the Republic of Congo, which took place...
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Why Francis wants to be the first social media-friendly Pope
He believes social media is a “gift” from God. On Pope Francis's Instagram account, inaugurated on Saturday, there is so far only one video. In it, Francis faces the camera, and says in Italian: “I...
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Tory failure is not the same as Labour success
The government's weakness risks merely diverting the opposition from its own. After Labour’s general election defeat, Jon Cruddas pinpointed George Osborne’s 2012 “omnishambles” Budget as the moment...
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How George Osborne's view of humanity brought him unstuck over cuts
It's not enough just to listen to focus groups. You have to think about what they say, too. Alongside concern about immigration (and not by any means separate from it), anger about “benefit...
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At least 21 dead after explosions at Brussels airport and metro station
Zaventem airport is on lockdown and train and plane services have been suspended after multiple blasts. At least two explosions have taken place in Brussels this morning. The Belgian government has...
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Love, jealousy and fantasy worlds: Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell on the...
As part of Female Friendship Week, Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell revists the joy and fear of her closest childhood friendship.*/ I have always been fascinated by friendships, in particular female...
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Back Clinton if you think it’s the only way to defeat Trump, but don’t...
Why do so many gays, and so many British Labour types (particularly so many gay Labourites), enthusiastically support the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton? Why do so many...
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“Faithful amanuensis”: how the guise of friendship is used to erase lesbian...
“Nothing to see here folks. Just some gal pals drinking Baileys and chatting about Ryan Gosling’s abs.”“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid...
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Excess all areas: Jack Sutherland’s gripping memoir of pharmaceutical excess
Sutherland’s book is one of the funniest and least self-righteous works on addiction that I have read in a long while. Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step programmes describe the “moment of...
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The Brussels attacks point to the existence of a broad terrorist network in...
There is more to this than merely retaliation for the arrest of Salah Abdesalam, the Paris bomber who was captured four days ago. Three bombings have taken place in Belgium today with two explosions...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and writing about race in America
There's a reason why Ta-Nehisi Coates is currently one of the most high-profile commentators on race in the United States.Between the World and Me is an epistolary essay about race by the...
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Gibraltar - impact of Brexit
Last week our editor took a general overview of some of the scenarios for Gibraltar if Britain were to leave the Euro. This week, as the atmosphere in the British Conservative Party becomes ever more...
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The lesson of history is that Conservative divisions over Europe will get...
David Cameron has borrowed Harold Wilson's tactics. He may get the same outcome. When Harold Wilson announced in early 1975 that he would hold a referendum on Britain’s EEC membership, the new...
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Jeremy Corbyn's critics aren't messing around. Time to get nasty
Trying to build a big tent within the Labour party is doomed to failure, argues Michael Chessum. To whoever was planning it, last week’s coded leadership announcement from Dan Jarvis might have...
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What is it about Molenbeek?
Taking a look at the bit of Belgium that was a base for Paris terror attacks. Just as during the German invasions of 1914 and 1940, war, it seems, is coming to France through Belgium. If one follows...
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Here's something we can all do to celebrate the end of the tampon tax
It's not just food that the poorest struggle to afford. As a bloke, the aisle in the supermarket with sanitary products is the kind of place I’d usually try to avoid. But as the manager of Bestwood...
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Ed Miliband tries to win over the left-wing Brexiters
In his first major speech since the general election, the former Labour leader made a vigorous social democratic case for EU membership. Whether the UK votes to remain in the EU depends on Labour...
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Britain may be vulnerable to terror attacks – but not because we have a...
Conflating the refugee crisis with EU migration is simply wrong. Of all the responses to the tragic events in Brussels today the most idiotic is the suggestion – from the feeble Allison Pearson, Ukip...
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