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Education

Attention! by Joshua Cohen: "Since using the computer, since using the internet, it’s as if my mind itself has evanesced"

By Jon Day - 15 Jun 2013

In our hypermediated world, where we choose to bestow our...
I owe everything I know about Shakespeare to Baz Lurhmann

By Agatha Elliott - 13 Jun 2013

I’m only seventeen. The continued popularity of Shakespearean...
The Eton Scholarship Question: this is how the British elite are trained to think

By Laurie Penny - 24 May 2013

As one of the school’s scholarship exam questions shows, young...
The Mr Men game

By Richard J Evans - 23 May 2013

Richard J Evans challenges Michael Gove’s history agenda.
Eton eternal: How one school came to dominate public life

By Jason Cowley - 08 May 2013

New Statesman editor Jason Cowley speaks to Anthony Little,...
Michael Gove wants longer school days because . . . reasons

By Glosswitch - 20 Apr 2013

Teachers must wish Michael Gove worked shorter days and took...

Health

Shame on Vice: There is nothing glamorous about being in so much pain you want to die

By Rebecca Wait - 18 Jun 2013

The Samaritans do great work offering guidance on depictions of...
"I could not exist, much less live a fulfilling life, without my carer"

By Hannah Buchanan - 12 Jun 2013

Writing for National Carers Week, Hannah Buchanan explains why...
Want to see a natural birth? Go to a sheep farm

By Sarah Ditum - 06 Jun 2013

Humans just aren't very good at giving birth - we produce...
Our big fat fear

By Felicity Cloake - 23 May 2013

As our waistlines have grown, so has our collective prejudice...
The transition from DLA to PIP will harm disabled claimants

By Erin Mee - 22 May 2013

Causes for concern from a care worker.
10 per cent of the world uses 90 per cent of the morphine: this needs to change

By Sheila Payne - 16 May 2013

Pain relief and palliative care is a human right - and yet global...

Lifestyle

Kickstarting a manual for sexual assault

By Alex Hern - 19 Jun 2013

Pick-up artists aren't just skeevy anymore, they're actively...
Treachery and sisterhood: What does it mean to "betray" feminism?

By Rhiannon and Holly - 19 Jun 2013

The whole notion that today's young women have somehow betrayed...
Shame on Vice: There is nothing glamorous about being in so much pain you want to die

By Rebecca Wait - 18 Jun 2013

The Samaritans do great work offering guidance on depictions of...
Wanting to protect children from online porn has nothing to do with social conservatism

By John Carr - 17 Jun 2013

Too many people have fallen for the myth that any attempt to...
The case for the Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex Bill

By Rhoda Grant - 17 Jun 2013

Rhoda Grant MSP explains why she thinks the arguments made...
Nigella Lawson pictures: We must not look away from domestic violence, but we can do more than just gawp

By Sarah Ditum - 16 Jun 2013

The photographs of Nigella Lawson in the Sunday People are...

Sport

How the spreadsheet-wielding geeks are taking over football

By Simon Kuper - 05 Jun 2013

The statistical revolution comes to the pitch.
In Britain, as in cricket, the north-south divide is as deep as ever

By Ed Smith - 30 May 2013

Ed Smith's "Left Field" column.
Why the Olympics inspire us

By David Puttnam - 29 May 2013

Continuing our "What makes us human?" series.
How the English fell in love with German football

By Sunder Katwala - 25 May 2013

Sport has a reputation for stoking historic enmities, but...
Sects and Man City

By Jonathan Derbyshire - 23 May 2013

Marking the passing of Roberto Mancini.
Reviewed: Harry’s Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp by John Crace

By Sophie Elmhirst - 16 May 2013

Win or lose, on the booze.

Travel

Over Bike-Share Schemes, The Wall Street Journal Loses the Plot

By Alex Hern - 04 Jun 2013

“Do not ask me to enter the mind of the totalitarians running...
On the Thames estuary

By Caroline Crampton - 15 May 2013

"The estuary doesn’t yield all its secrets on first glance. An...
Every now and then something pops out of the forest to remind us about wildness

By Sophie Elmhirst - 10 May 2013

Left Field: On wild boar and other beasts.
Keeping my Freedom Pass, blowing things up from inside and the invisible crime wave

By Peter Wilby - 01 May 2013

Peter Wilby's "First Thoughts" column.
You don't have to wear tweed and cry "tally-ho" to enjoy the outdoors

By Aisha Gani - 14 Mar 2013

Young women from BME backgrounds are discovering that there's...
Nature: Dark satanic mills

By John Burnside - 29 Aug 2012

John Burnside's nature column.

Religion

Is Pope Francis about to launch an anti-gay witchhunt in the Vatican?

By Nelson Jones - 14 Jun 2013

The pontiff's remarks about the existence of a "gay lobby" in the...
Islamophobia and violent extremism: tackling the twin-menace head on

By Muhammad Abdul Bari - 11 Jun 2013

Faith and conviction cannot be burnt by the flames of hatred.
For the new Power Christians, God is the new CEO

By George Pitcher - 06 Jun 2013

With the Archbishop of Canterbury and former oilman Justin Welby...
The Left should mobilise against religious extremism as well as the far right

By Sunny Hundal - 05 Jun 2013

Anti-fascists who happily march against the BNP or EDL rarely...
Rowan Williams: Sharia law question "still pertinent"

By Philip Maughan - 05 Jun 2013

The former Archbishop of Canterbury revisits his 2008 speech.
On Heaven and Earth by Pope Francis and Abraham Skorka: Will the Church become just another charity?

By John Cornwell - 24 May 2013

Vatican watchers will find strong clues about the direction of...

Society

Kickstarting a manual for sexual assault

By Alex Hern - 19 Jun 2013

Pick-up artists aren't just skeevy anymore, they're actively...
Treachery and sisterhood: What does it mean to "betray" feminism?

By Rhiannon and Holly - 19 Jun 2013

The whole notion that today's young women have somehow betrayed...
Wanting to protect children from online porn has nothing to do with social conservatism

By John Carr - 17 Jun 2013

Too many people have fallen for the myth that any attempt to...
The case for the Criminalisation of the Purchase of Sex Bill

By Rhoda Grant - 17 Jun 2013

Rhoda Grant MSP explains why she thinks the arguments made...
Nigella Lawson pictures: We must not look away from domestic violence, but we can do more than just gawp

By Sarah Ditum - 16 Jun 2013

The photographs of Nigella Lawson in the Sunday People are...
Why I won't be sending you a father's day card

By Paris Lees - 16 Jun 2013

When I tell people I no longer speak to you, they assume it’s...

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