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A guide to navigating the conflicting findings of medical researchThe Observer, 13 July 2008

Is it curtains for critics?
An army of arts bloggers is posting internet reviews on subjects from grand opera to soap opera - instant, global and free. US newspapers have begun to ditch their reviewers as digital alternatives flourish. Could it happen here?
Jay Rayner, Observer, 13 July 2008

The Royal Ballet’s Asian tour is a great lesson in cultural diplomacy
When they tour, arts companies create a buzz of economic and political activity
David Jays, Sunday Times, 13 July 2008

Data Sharing Review Report
There are two key steps in the implementation of any scheme to share personal data. The first is to decide whether it is appropriate to share personal data for a particular purpose. The second is to determine how data should be shared, in particular what and how much data, and by what means.
Richard Thomas & Mark Walport, Ministry of Justice, 11 July 2008

The People’s Republic is learning presentational skills
As for Tibet, I was in Beijing and other cities in the period of the recent confrontation in Lhasa and elsewhere. The general opinion of taxi drivers was that the economic development of Tibet should have made this a non-issue and still might.
Alan Hudson, Culture Wars, 10 July 2008

Ideal growth?
There is no reason to assume this ideological vacuity will last: if nothing else, the class struggle that economic development will produce means that history is not yet dead.
Lee Jones, Culture Wars, 10 July 2008

I wanna be like you
What really emerges through Leonard’s discussion is how familiar rather than ideologically different China is. The concerns of China’s ‘New Left’ – the environment, inequality, welfarism – are very similar to those of the Western left.
Phil Cunliffe, Culture Wars, 10 July 2008

Battle for China: the ballad of Qu Yuan
The clash between Chinese officials and radicals over whether an ancient poet was a patriot or dissenter is about more than literary heritage.
Shirley Dent, spiked, 10 July 2008

Beijing Olympics: China's green critics should get a grip
The possibility that China could become a fully industrialised and urbanised society, with living standards akin to our own, has become the ultimate environmentalist nightmare.
Claire Fox, The Telegraph, 10 July 2008