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Last 24 hours
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1. The real scandal of Michelle Obama's Spanish vacation | Dan Kennedy
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2. As Cameron gets radical, the left dozes on planet 1945 | Simon Jenkins
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3. Fashion and blood diamonds: a tale of two tyrannies | Tanya Gold
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4. Orthodox attitudes to gay people shift | Mordechai Beck
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5. Stop this slut-shaming | Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny: The word sexualisation is a troubling cultural shorthand – it sends girls an unhelpful message -
6. Robots don't feel. Why pretend they do? Andrew Brown
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7. Credit agencies are no way to catch benefit cheats | Tony Levene
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8. To Viktor go the spoils: how Hungary blazes a trail in Europe | Mark Weisbrot
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9. Bluelou on Northern Irish politics
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10. If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have | Tony Judt
Last 7 days
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1. The time to organise resistance is now | Tony Benn and 73 others
Tony Benn and 73 others: We reject the cuts as simply malicious ideological vandalism, hitting the most vulnerable the hardest. Join us in the fight -
2. Why the north-south divide will soon become a chasm | John Harris
John Harris: We are not all in this together, whatever the metropolitan elite may say. The cuts will be felt most far beyond the M25 -
3. Frank Chickens: Edinburgh gods | Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee: In its idiotic, meaningless search for a 'Comedy God' at the Fringe, Foster's is finding the joke's on them -
4. This isn't the America I love | Mehdi Hasan
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5. Truthfulness in advertising? Who knows – it could just catch on | David Mitchell
David Mitchell: Imagine a world in which marketing companies were honest about the products they were trying to sell -
6. Degraded with a kiss | Jan Morris
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7. The 'big society' is a big fat lie – just follow the money | Polly Toynbee
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8. Stop this slut-shaming | Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny: The word sexualisation is a troubling cultural shorthand – it sends girls an unhelpful message -
9. Burqas and bikinis | Priyamvada Gopal
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10. Japan can't stay postwar forever | Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma: It became rich as America's compliant vassal state. Now Japan's efforts to move on are being thwarted by the US