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A true horror story: The abuse of teenage boys in a detention centre

"My name's Kevin Raymond Young and I'm 52 years old." There's something desperate about the way Young says it, as if he's clinging to the wreckage of his identity. Young was 17 when he was sent to…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4625 words)

the final moments

That winter's day in the park, although we weren't to know it, was to be the last time I ever played football with my son. The memorable two-a-side match featured Peter and his cousin, with…
PUBLISHED: April 7, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1914 words)

Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook, 50 years on

Diana AthillOf course I read The Golden Notebook as soon as it came out. Everyone did. But I took against it. I and most of my friends, who were more or less the same age as Doris Lessing, felt, as…
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3591 words)

finding freedom in a children's prison

Visiting Keppel high-dependency unit, home to some of the most traumatised and damaged children in the UK, necessitates the navigation of a labyrinth.After passing through a series of towering gates…
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1646 words)

The Church of England needs its own rebirth

Last Friday, a bishop wrote something astonishing about his own church. "The Church of England used to be the guardian of the nation's morals, but is increasingly perceived as irrelevant, or even a…
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2088 words)

Life and death on my street in Sarajevo

In 1991, the year that the Soviet Union broke up, a nationalist revival was sweeping eastern Europe. It found its most pernicious expression in Yugoslavia, a country patched together in 1943 out of…
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3031 words)
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