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Editors' picks

The Spirit Level is not on the level

Natalie Evans: A new report fatally undermines the authors' claims about the link between income equality and social problems

The death of activism

Clancy Sigal: We've plenty to protest about in the US, but on the streets there is no dissent. Why is our liberal mood so paralytic?

How can we justify footballers' wages?

John Foot: There has been a moral outcry about bankers' earnings, yet no one is up in arms about the vast sums paid to some footballers

The Dickensian world of extradition

Victoria Brittain: The British government must move decisively to protect its citizens from the unfair US/UK extradition treaty of 2003

Gated communities are a social ill

Jonathan Glancey: Paranoia is the reason we gate our streets and homes yet the more we cut ourselves off from one another the more it spreads

Arts are the barometer of civilisation

Amanda Nevill: Spending on film and the arts gives good value. Cuts will pose a huge threat to the nation's social and cultural wellbeing

The 'climategate' inquiry at last vindicates Phil Jones – and so must I

George Monbiot: The UEA's climate science chief has been cleared: he was provoked beyond endurance. It was unfair to call for his resignation

Poll

Tuning out?

The digital radio switchover may not happen as early as planned, as the government says the proposed 2015 date is a target and not a deadline. Will you be ready for the digital revoloution?

(19%)

(81%)

Politics. And other stuff
Michael Tomasky on America
Free to believe
Andrew Brown on belief and unbelief

Thread of the day

  1. Best of the Web

  2. 1. The Comment Factory: The Con-Dem attack on the poorest
    If we cannot convince people that paying our taxes, that putting money into the benefit system is something they need to do, we are lost
  3. 2. Quite Alone: CNN's error of judgement
    By firing Octavia Nasr, CNN has shown itself to be a deeply reactionary, conservative organization
  4. 3. Heresy Corner: Science and the octopus
    Could there be a scientific explanation for the successful football predictions of Paul the Psychic Octopus?
  5. 4. Salon: Climategate burned by reality
    Climatologists exonerated, by all except the conservative media, that is
  6. 5. RH Reality Check: We are more than our future children
    When crafting medical coverage and public health policy, we must avoid hysterical models that imagine wombs as entities separate from women, or imagine women as somehow pitted against their fetuses

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