Charities should accept their game is up
The Big Society, while profoundly irritating for many in the charity sector, was the culmination of an ever more intimate relationship between state and the so-called civil-society sector. Consequently, far from making us more free, it has only further ingrained a long-standing relationship of dependence.
Dave Clements, Independent, 1 November 2011

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

Why unpaid internships are a good thing – they help the young get a foot in the door
We have a job that needs doing that we cannot get our clients to pay us for and, in the current climate, we cannot afford to pay an experienced person to do it. The work we want doing would involve supervision by a senior manager and would involve learning a set of skills that is very saleable in the labour market. Now, if we accept the argument that unpaid internships are wrong then this work will go undone, to the minor detriment of our business, and nobody will get that valuable experience. Who benefits from that?
Rob Killick, City AM, 17 October 2011

What’s wrong with students stripping for cash?
Is it OK for hard-up students to consider taking their clothes off as a way of paying their university tuition fees? The mere suggestion that they could earn a ‘good wage’ doing so by John Specht, UK vice president of the Spearmint Rhino chain of gentlemen’s clubs, has caused controversy
Abigail Ross-Jackson, Independent, 14 October 2011

Is monogamy making us miserable?
Marriage can be tough. But one expert believes it doesn’t have to be – that our ‘one mate for life’ rule is unrealistic, unnecessary, even unnatural. We dare to ask if, perhaps, he has a point.
John Preston, Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2011

Young, unpaid and angry: interns go online to campaign for a wage
A website is exposing well-known companies that, it claims, offer 'internships' that last for months with little or no remuneration
Daniel Boffey and Heather Stewart, Observer, 9 October 2011

The price of oppressing your women
A recent Newsweek article listed the best and worst places to be a woman, and explained the disadvantages of oppression.
Naomi Wolf, Aljazeera, 5 October 2011

London 2012: Cleaners set to spy on dopers
Cleaning and security staff will be tasked with informing on doping cheats during next summer's Olympics games.
Matt McGrath, BBC News, 4 October 2011

Panic on a Plate
In the last eighty years the proportion of household income spent on food has dropped from a third to less than a tenth. Fruit and vegetables from around the world are on the shelves all year round.
Chris Snowdon, Free Society, 3 October 2011