Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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Work/ life balance good for the bank balance
Companies that foster a good work/ life balance enjoy a 20% earnings boost, a study claims...Management Today, 13 October 2009

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The price of the ‘power tax’ is far too high
Our belief that senior politicians have forgone their right to privacy makes leadership impossible in a modern democracy.
David Aaronovitch , The Times, 13 October 2009

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BAA to give up on third Heathrow runway
THE airport operator BAA has bowed to opposition to a third runway at Heathrow airport. It will not submit a planning application before the general election and will not sign large contracts to “bounce” a future Conservative government into accepting it.
Chris Gourlay and Jon Ungoed-Thomas, The Times, 12 October 2009

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Making autism ‘normal’ won’t help my son
It may reduce the stigma but it trivialises the learning difficulties and isolation sufferers endure.
Michael Fitzpatrick, The Times, 12 October 2009

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Grievous Choice on Risky Path to Parenthood
It was the last piece of advice Thomas and Amanda Stansel wanted to hear. But their fertility doctor was delivering it, without sugarcoating. Reduce, or you will lose them all, he told them.
Stephanie Saul, New York Times, 11 October 2009

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All in it together? Some of us are much more in it than others, George
The blending of Right-wing fiscal policy with the belief that it somehow helps those at the very bottom is the essence of the thesis. ‘We are all in it together,’ said Osborne. To which one can only reply: Some are clearly more in IT than others.
Suzanne Moore, Mail on Sunday, 10 October 2009

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Beyond the exotic
One rather unexpected consequence of 9/11 and its political aftermath in Afghanistan and Iraq has been a steadily developing appreciation in the west of the art and culture of the Middle East.
Stephen Deuchar, Guardian, 10 October 2009

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So just how is Cameron going to give power to the people?
There's a paradox in aiming to improve services even as the Government does less.
Steve Richards, Independent, 9 October 2009

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Standing up for pure poetry
As Joanna Lumley records an album of poetry, and more performance poets are taking to the stage, is verse undergoing a revival?
Iain Hollingshead, Telegraph, 9 October 2009

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Barack Obama's Nobel prize: why now?
Giving Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize so early in his presidency could hinder rather than help his diplomatic efforts
Peter Beaumont, Guardian, 9 October 2009

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