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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Lifestyle & Society

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Lib Dems vote overwhelmingly to set up panel to consider decriminalising drugs
Motion also offers show of support for Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, following high profile resignations from body
Paul Owen, Guardian, 18 September 2011

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Is the working woman allowed to get rich on screen?
Since the crash films about money-making are required to carry a strong moral health warning.
, 16 September 2011

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Under the Influence
Under the Influence investigates how far parenting style affects those children’s drinking behaviour in later life. It analyses data of several thousand children from two separate data sets and compares how their parents raised them against the child’s drinking habits in adolescence and adulthood.
Jamie Bartlett and Matt Grist, Demos, 16 September 2011

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Wisbech fan moves out of home, into one-bed flat built in football ground
Spenny Larham has seen all his dreams come true - though perhaps annoyed his family slightly - by moving out of his town-centre home and into a one-bedroom flat built within the ground of his favourite team, Wisbech Town.
Emily Hewett, Metro, 16 September 2011

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In defence of the rights of sportsmen
The anti-doping crusade has led to an appalling denigration of athletes’ rights. Why is there no uproar about it?
Klaus Wivel , spiked, 14 September 2011

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Evildoers and Us
The problem of evil is one of our oldest intellectual conundrums.
Alan Wolfe, Chronicle Review, 11 September 2011

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Is uncertainty the new risk?
The scientisation of uncertainty presents huge problems for policy. It suggests that policy problems can be solved by throwing more science at them.
Jack Stilgoe, Responsible Innovation, 6 September 2011

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'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous'
Prohibition approach is 'irrational' say experts as one new synthetic psychoactive substance appears every week
Mark Townsend, Guardian, 3 September 2011

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Mum who spray tans girl aged 4
Jools Willis says it boosts little Tate's confidence.
Rhodri Phillips and Jamie Pyatt, The Sun, 2 September 2011

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Why marriage is worth the effort
As a report suggests that boredom, rather than infidelity, is now the main reason for divorce, staying the course is more of a challenge than ever.
Angela Neustatter, Daily Telegraph, 31 August 2011

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