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The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal

Drugs are tested by their manufacturers, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that exaggerate the benefits.…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4207 words)

This is how racism takes root

Five of the eight men convicted of child sex abuse in Derby: Mark Adaoui, John Shaw, Stefan Godfrey, Anthony Lambert and Ijaz Ahmed. Photograph: Caters News Agency By now surely everyone knows the…
PUBLISHED: July 22, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1676 words)

Meet 'Dr Love', the scientist exploring what makes people good or evil

American scientist Paul Zak, whose research into the hormone oxytocin links science and morality. Photograph: Bryce Duffy The American academic Paul Zak is renowned among his colleagues for two…
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2054 words)

Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity'

'The worse the crime, the more obvious the explanation' … Clive Stafford Smith. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Clive Stafford Smith's son Wilf is only three, but must have formed a pretty low opinion…
PUBLISHED: July 8, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2504 words)

Why Marxism is on the rise again

A public-sector worker striking in east London last year. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-ZUMA / Rex Features Class conflict once seemed so straightforward. Marx and Engels wrote in the second best-selling…
PUBLISHED: July 4, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2372 words)

Barclays Libor scandal: how can we change banking culture?

Barclays boss Bob Diamond … the scale of the Libor scandal is jawdropping Photograph: Dylan Martinez/REUTERS We don't know each other, but I want to offer you a deal: You each give me £20,000. And…
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2304 words)

The Olympics – ancient and modern

Fair play? You didn’t even get a medal if you came first in the early Olympic competitions, just a wreath of olive leaves. Photograph: Getty Images/The Bridgeman Art Library The Olympic Games of…
AUTHOR:Mary Beard
PUBLISHED: June 22, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3529 words)

Happiness is a glass half empty

Are we maybe just looking for happiness in the wrong way? Photograph: Aaron Tilley for the Guardian In an unremarkable business park outside the city of Ann Arbor, in Michigan, stands a poignant…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3181 words)

Back to the workhouse

May Day marchers in London protest against workfare. Photograph: Peter Marshall/Demotix/Corbis If the diamond jubilee celebrations were meant to somehow reflect 21st-century Britain, it was only…
PUBLISHED: June 8, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2552 words)
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