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Coarse sex and cheap lives
There is a sense that more straightforward access to abortion, and in particular the advent of the abortion pill, with which a pregnancy can be ended without any surgical intervention, has given us all a much more lax attitude towards casual relationships and unprotected sex because the consequences can be so swiftly eliminated with a handful of medication.
Clare Murphy,
Independent, 22 October 2011
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Should we learn to be happy with the crumbs that fall to us?
It is amazing that today we can imagine Karl Marx warning us not to envy the social position of the ruling class. In fact, he was cautioning that we should never be content with the crumbs that fall to us.
Ashley Frawley,
Independent, 21 October 2011
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Sex: it’s not all in the brain
In Delusions of Gender, Cordelia Fine demolishes the trendy notion that male and female brains are different, but does not overcome the idea that stereotypes are deeply engrained.
Derbyshire and Powell,
spiked, 21 October 2011
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In drugs, pragmatism is the only moral approach
The damage that drugs can cause to some users is also clear. But set against this, there should be no doubt that drug use does bring benefits to many people. Why else would two million people a year use cannabis?
Roger Howard and Leo Barasi,
Independent, 20 October 2011
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Skills and yet more skills: is this really what Britain needs today?
Unemployment is currently over 2.5 million. The current economic recovery is less than anaemic, and everywhere we see forecasts anticipating a worsening economic experience in the coming years. ‘Skilling up’ is not going to overcome this state of affairs.
Para Mullan,
Independent, 18 October 2011
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Giving the people’s Bible back to the people
The King James Bible (KJB) contains 66 books; now 66 writers have been commissioned to compose plays and other performances “in response” to each of those books.
Charles Moore,
Daily Telegraph, 17 October 2011
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