January 2012
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November 2011
“I’m old enough to get a job and it’s pathetic that I can’t.”
– Lizzie Polack - What it’s like to be young and looking for work in Britain
October 2011
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“What we now have — most extremely in the U.S. but pretty much everywhere — is...”
– Paul Gilding - There’s Something Happening Here
“The way the dress of a small number of women has been portrayed as a key problem...”
– Thomas Hammarberg - France’s burqa ban: women are ‘effectively under house arrest’
September 2011
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August 2011
“We praise those in the Arab spring and condemn the force used against them by...”
– Michael Mansfield - Michael Mansfield condemns police brutality at student demo
“Torture is repulsive. It is deliberate cruelty, a crude and ancient tool of...”
– Mark Bowden - The Dark Art of Interrogation
“As a literary society, we have long since gotten over our modesties. The...”
– The High Is Always the Pain and the Pain Is Always the High
July 2011
“In Britain, the brave are sacked and the rest of us leave our freedoms behind...”
– Nick Cohen - Let the law save whistleblowers, not silence them
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“So when you hear David Wooding bleating plaintively on TV and radio about how...”
– Jools Payne - My encounter with the News of the World
“Bourdieu drew the conclusion that judgments of taste reinforce forms of social...”
– Nikil Saval - The iPod has changed the way we listen to music. And the way we respond to it.
June 2011
“In some sense our culture’s fierce resistance to the bleak inevitable is...”
– Judy Bachrach - Death Be Not Chic - The Fantasy of Death in Cinema and TV
“And, of course, the private sector is usually better at making money but, as...”
– David Mitchell - Lesson one: when it comes to the crunch, private sector knows best
“This is a modern tragedy, replayed millions of times over. When there is no way...”
– Atul Gawande - Letting Go
“This idea of privacy as a form of control is echoed by many privacy scholars,...”
– Jeffrey Rosen - The Web Means the End of Forgetting
“She is a real conviction politician in an era where most presidential aspirants...”
– Paul Harris - Michele Bachmann: homophobe-in-chief?
“It’s for a girl. But I really don’t see why she shouldn’t have that space rocket...”
– Cordelia Fine - Let’s end the great gender lie
“Essentially, when we lock someone up today, we are agreeing to pay a large (and...”
– Graeme Wood - Prison Without Walls
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“This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction....”
– Lulz Security - 1000th tweet statement
“Our duty, I believe, is different—to see in a terrorism suspect a person...”
– Jeanne Theoharis - My Student, the ‘Terrorist’
“Interactivity sabotages storytelling. There is no longer any use arguing to the...”
– Tom Bissell - Press X for Beer Bottle: On L.A. Noire
“Eating fruit and vegetables keeps you simple and stupid. It is no coincidence...”
– Stewart Lee - If five portions a day are so good, how come rabbits and slugs are so stupid?
“I started off talking about my girls because I wonder if my youngest has been...”
– Suzanne Moore - Yes, our children are growing up too soon. But blame capitalism, not sex
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“When the IMF arrives in a country, they are interested in only one thing. How do...”
– Joseph Stiglitz - It’s not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial
“I read features in weekend supplements about how the young people of today don’t...”
– Stewart Lee - I am a stand-up comedian
“We have been seduced by easy credit, cheap consumer goods and the rise of the...”
– Editorial - Mums net a victory
“For today’s children, the equivalent of the candy cigarette is the toddler...”
– Tanith Carey - Rip up the raunch culture
“Most of us don’t really ask for feedback — not real, honest feedback — because...”
– Tim Harford - ADAPT: An interview with Tim Harford and an excerpt from his new book
“Do we fully understand the psychological effects on remote operators of...”
– Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre - The Terminators: drone strikes prompt MoD to ponder ethics of killer robots
May 2011
“When Strauss-Kahn is discussed in this company, an objection is not far behind....”
– Heresy Corner - Dominique Strauss-Kahn: the sexual imperative
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
…is a diagnostic endoscopic. Yep.
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“The programme plainly has something at its heart that strikes a very British...”
– Jon Henley - Behind the scenes at Today, the most influential programme on British radio
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“But in so far as its purpose is to prevent intrusion or harassment, it has not...”
– Mr Justice Tugendhat - There is more to privacy law than injunctions on secrets
“Pimping is not cool. A pimp is a wife beater, rapist, murderer, child-molester,...”
– ‘Natalie’ - Sex Trafficking of Americans: The Girls Next Door
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“The coverage in most of the papers has been self-serving beyond belief. Their...”
– Alistair Campbell - Media’s lack of focus on phone hacking exposes their agenda – sex and celebs
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“In doing so, Hemming has set himself up as the ultimate judge in this case,...”
– Carl Gardner - Hemming does his worst
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“[The Government are] using the media’s obsession with celebrity to create...”
– David Mitchell - Don’t blame Mary Portas if she can’t deliver the coalition’s punchline
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“There is a whole wave of these older guys, who cheat on their wives, who have a...”
– Paul Ackermann - How Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s arrest awoke a dormant anger in the heart of France’s women
Good to hear it, if true.
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“In 2004, Ruud Lubbers, the high commissioner for human rights, reportedly...”
– Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - Diplomatic immunity and the culture of impunity
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“It’s not surprising that the proponents of torture would try to use the...”
– Josh Bell - The CIA Weighs In: Torture Did Not Help Find Bin Laden
“When the nothing-to-hide argument is unpacked, and its underlying assumptions...”
– Daniel J. Solove - Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’