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The Samsung controversy and the murky world of tech blogging

The Indian bloggers said they had told Samsung they would only travel if they could work as independent journalists. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images For the two technology bloggers from…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1583 words)

Why do we continue to ignore China's rise? Arrogance

History is passing our country and our continent by. Once we were the centre of the world, the place from where power, ideas and the future emanated. If we drew a map of the world, Europe was at its…
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2058 words)

Is religion really under threat?

Richard Dawkins … Often seen by those of vague faith as an aggressive pest. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of secularism. All the…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 14, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1703 words)

the man who scarred South Africa

For as long as anyone can remember, white South Africans have feared that a wild and dangerous black man would get his hands on too much power. He would be charismatic and he would be angry. He…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3148 words)

How the north of England has suffered most in the downturn

PUBLISHED: Feb. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1929 words)

the 'heretic' at odds with scientific dogma

AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Feb. 5, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2440 words)

should you try this at home?

Ängelholm is a pretty southern Swedish town, famed for its clay cuckoo manufacturing, a clay cuckoo being a kind of ocarina, which is a kind of flute. The crime rate here is practically zero.…
AUTHOR:Jon Ronson
PUBLISHED: Feb. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3367 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)

lust and liberty in the 18th century

We believe in sexual freedom. We take it for granted that consenting men and women have the right to do what they like with their bodies. Sex is everywhere in our culture. We love to think and talk…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4053 words)
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