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Friday 3 July 2009 Home
Jennie Bristow
The grisly memoirs of a bad mother
Ayelet Waldman’s memoir may be solipsistic, but it is far more enlightening than the reams of mummy lit written over the past 10 years.
Tuesday 7 July 2009, London
What future for business?
Risk-taking after the recession.

Duleep Allirajah
Andy Murray: better than a loveable loser
He’s got a reputation as a self-obsessed, grumpy brat, but at least he’s got a chance of winning Wimbledon.

Patrick West
NASA: ‘Risk is the price of progress’
A brilliant documentary on the Apollo missions reminds us that, yes, going to space is a risky business, but it's worth it.

Thursday 2 July 2009
Brendan O’Neill
Labour: the ghost of government past
The Brown regime’s U-turns on Royal Mail, ID cards and education reveals something shocking: Britain currently has no real government.

Rob Lyons
Desperately seeking an economic revival
The British government seems more interested in saving its own skin than devising an economic strategy.

Sadhvi Sharma
You say Dilli, I say Delhi
Rebranding Indian cities, streets and landmarks with ‘authentic’ Hindi names is parochial and chauvinistic, says Bombayite Sadhvi Sharma.

Wednesday 1 July 2009
Mick Hume
Brown’s Britain: the Mr Bean of diplomacy?
The irony of the embassy controversy is that the UK has been singled out for attack by the Iranian regime because it lacks influence there today.

Nathalie Rothschild
What next, ‘British women for British men’?
Brown’s promise of social housing for local people shows that he thinks the way to beat the BNP is to steal its policies.

Jessica Mudditt
In Calais, solidarity with the sans papiers
PHOTO ESSAY: Jessica Mudditt reports on a protest for open borders at the wasteland migrant shanties in France.

Tuesday 30 June 2009
In defence of the right to discriminate
Basham and Luik
Turning fat people into social outcasts
A new report chastising fat celebs as a bad influence is part of a worrying campaign to ‘denormalise’ chubbiness.

Tim Black
These obscenity laws should be abolished
The case of a pervy blog about Girls Aloud should alert us to the dangers of allowing the state to regulate people’s fantasies.

Monday 29 June 2009
James Woudhuysen
Let’s go back to the
moon — and beyond

As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration.

Andrew Calcutt
Jacko was a product of our Wacko culture
In staying childish and obsessing over his identity, Michael Jackson was actually normal by today’s standards.

Anna Travis
Ban-happy Brighton
Far from promising a wild weekend, the UK seaside town of Brighton is fast degenerating into a centre of booze-confiscating puritanism.


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