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Why sex could be history

Aarathi Prasad: 'Having a child in a place that’s not in your body is not necessarily bad for bonding.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Over tea at her north London home, Aarathi Prasad is…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2257 words)

Will they make it to the Royal Ballet?

It's 8.30am, and in an 18th-century Palladian villa in Richmond Park, London, 25 children are saying their prayers. "God be in my head and in my understanding," they recite, heads bowed. "God be in…
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2736 words)

Mad Men is back!

Don DraperA man to project your fantasies onWhat's it like to be too handsome? The actor who made his TV debut as "gorgeous guy at bar" in Ally McBeal in 1997 stops fiddling with his bagel and looks…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4026 words)

Will Putinism see the end of Putin?

On a Friday night last November Vladimir Putin was running three hours late. A group of foreign academics, journalists and selected Russian TV cameras were quarantined in a restaurant in an…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3669 words)

Could Wales leave the United Kingdom?

Leanne Wood is rather different from most of the UK's politicians. Forty years old and a mother of one, she still lives in the same street in the Rhondda Valley where she was born and brought up.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2577 words)

incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe

Behind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging bedrolls on the floor. The workers on the Salvation Army nightshift, who watch over these lone foreign teenagers in a…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2797 words)

how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU

Maybe being young is never easy. But being a twentysomething young European has rarely been more stressful.More than a quarter (28%) of Italians between 16 and 24 are unemployed. Others are…
AUTHOR:Viola Caon
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2263 words)

how the revolution went viral

It was a cold Friday night early last year, sometime between the fall of Ben Ali in Tunisia and the fall of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. I got a call: would I do a lecture on the…
AUTHOR:Paul Mason
PUBLISHED: Jan. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2741 words)

'I'm not ready to give up my American citizenship'

In the weeks leading up to this interview, I began to think there must be some law that makes it illegal not to love Johnny Depp. Everyone melts into a puddle at the mention of his name. Men go…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2557 words)
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