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Society
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As French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempts to drive through a ban on the niqab and burqa, Laurie Penny describes how the Islamic veil has become yet another item of women’s clothing for men to fight over for their own ends.
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Arts
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Anwar Akhtar visits the Whitechapel Gallery's Where Three Dreams Cross exhibition of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and finds it says a lot not only about those countries, but also about Britain today.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
Crashing into being with a punky surf drum intro that sounds like it should have Joey Ramone yelping “Hey Ho! Let’s Go!” over it, Golden Girls’s Amateur Teen Sex Attics is the kind of noisy, anarchic, fast pop-punk that gets played over compilation videos of boys wiping out on their skateboards.
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Politics
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By David Cronin
Growing up in the deeply uncool Dublin of the early 1980s, I became fascinated by images of rain and mud beamed into my family’s home on BBC news bulletins. Those were the conditions which the women of Greenham Common peace camp endured in their noble quest to remove weapons of mass destruction from British soil and eventually from the entire world.
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Society
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It's just not normal to spend your adolescent and teenage years separated away from the opposite sex. But it's one of the central tenants of religious education, and a recipe for sexual dysfunction, says Eamonn Dwyer.
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Politics
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At the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War, Tony Blair claimed the risk of terrorists being supplied Weapons of Mass Destruction by “rogue” states justified a policy of invasion rather than containment and deterrence. Alex Holland analyses this argument for regime change.
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Politics and Policy
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Sri Lanka’s opposition talked of giving concessions to the country’s defeated Tamil minority. The Sinhalese majority said no. Melanie Gouby analyses Sri Lanka’s presidential election.
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Society
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This year’s general election will see the British National Party try and exploit divided communities in towns and cities across the country. Charlie Baker, who has worked for regeneration cooperative URBED in cities across northern England, looks at the causes of prejudice and segregation in Britain’s racial hotspots.
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Society
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By Annabel Symington
“I couldn’t say no,” says Humu Tavawallie, 14. “When he asked, I couldn’t say no.” Humu has been sleeping with her teacher, 37, since the end of last school year. “When the practicals [exams] came I didn’t have the money to pay. My teacher said I didn’t have to pay. He said he wanted to love me.” The practicals cost 5000 Leones, less than 80p.
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Politics
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Clare Short's appearance at the Chilcot Inquiry was in contrast to the dour and deflective testimonies so far. But her plaudits in the press have glossed over what amounts to a blatant attempt to rewrite her embarrassing history, says Kelly Armstrong.
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Politics
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The Barack Obama administration’s plans for subduing the Taliban are endangered by continuing insecurity in Iraq, writes Paul Rogers.
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By David Cronin
Robert Clive epitomised the excesses of the British Empire. A master, in his own words, of “tricks, chicanery, politics and the Lord knows what”, the head of the East India Company did not hesitate to use mass starvation as a means of asserting control.
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Arts
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By Stephanie King
It took Paparazzi and a sensational MTV Video Music Awards performance to convince me that Lady Gaga was for real. However, despite admiring her pop-meets-performance-art shtick, her music does little for me. But on The Fame Monster skulks a piece of trashy goth-Europop that’s the musical equivalent of smoking – dirty, guilt-ridden and utterly addictive.
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