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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Social scientists now need to take a leaf out of David Nutt's book, and speak out on bad policies – yet recognise politics is an art The latest culture clash between politics and science sent a spasm of anger and alarm through every academic discipline. The sacking of Professor David Nutt as head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs was a salutary warning to scientists that they risk...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
A few years ago a major publisher announced the mega-bucks purchase of a memoir by a Big Brother contestant whom it gushingly called "the nation's sweetheart". Pretty soon, she wasn't even her sweetheart's sweetheart any more and the book went the way of all over-hyped ephemera. But to wean publishers off their addiction to betting on flash-in-the-pan celebrity titles would take a 12-step...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Hate crimes in America are on the rise according to new figures released by the FBI this week, with African Americans and religious groups the main victims. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Washington bureau director Hilary Shelton claimed the 8 per cent rise in anti-black hate crimes is the result of Obama's election and the recession. The total number of hate crimes...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
We journalists are collectors. Facts (preferably true), gossip (often untrue), predictions (always, of course, correct), old newspaper clippings, photos and press handouts and – in my case – propaganda leaflets (in hopelessly ungrammatical Arabic) dropped by Israeli planes over Lebanon. Why, I still have my reporter's notebook covered in oil spots from Kuwait, after Saddam had set the...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Home Secretary has decided he is powerless to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to Virginia, where he will be denied bail and sentenced to at least 10 years' imprisonment for an offence that would not deserve custodial sentence in Britain and notwithstanding the fact that he has Asperger's and is very likely to commit suicide. This decision is morally wrong because his case cries out for compassion....
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
So Wikipedia is dying, scuppered by its power-hungry editors who guard their turf too zealously and delete new entries. It was (is still) such a noble project, it should be a tragedy that people have stopped contributing to it.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
One small car crash in a rich cul-de-sac of Florida was last night causing a convulsion throughout the whole world of sport.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The Iraq inquiry, with the length of time we waited for it, the projected timetable of a year and the special logo designed for it in serious blue, all seemed to promise a fierce sense of purpose and formality to match the grave act of taking the country to war. Somehow, even by day four, it doesn't feel like that.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
It's not a question of whether the image of Demi Moore on the cover of W magazine has been altered, it's a question of how much. Covers of glossy magazines will almost always be retouched, especially those featuring celebrities, for reasons of vanity on their part and also to maintain the perfect ideal of the publication in question.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
I've an equation for you. Call it my contribution to the great "What is art/What is beauty?"debate which the BBC has been fostering these last few weeks. A-H=Af. Art minus Heart equals Artifice.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
"Haven't you," said a man who had just taken my heart and snapped it in two, "ever heard of forgiveness?" I was so shocked, I couldn't speak. What I wanted to say, what I would have said, had I been capable of emitting something other than weird mewling noises, which I wasn't, was that that isn't quite how it works.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
It was like a gay wedding. The only problem was that one of the partners, David Cameron, walked out of the service after about five minutes. He had only just walked up the aisle with Phillip Blond, the self-styled "Red Tory" dubbed his "philosopher-king," to launch Mr Blond's new think-tank ResPublica.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Dubai is not the first state, and will not be the last, that finds itself in difficulties in this financial crisis.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barcelona and Real Madrid come together to contest the 'El Clasico' in La Liga this weekend.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Like most countries, India's electricity is distributed to its population via a large, centralised grid system. Through the construction of thermal power plants and large hydroelectric dams, the Government has added 150MW of installed generating capacity to this grid in the 62 years since Independence, yet such priority is given to feeding the insatiable demands of the cities that 78 million people...
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