Taking drugs seriously: a Demos and UKDPC report on legal highs
In 2009, a previous record 24 new synthetic psychoactive substances were identified. There are now over 600 substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act (MDA) in the UK. With the emergence of manufactured ‘legal highs’, this number is set to increase drastically. As the MDA turns 40 years old this year, this report investigates whether twentieth-century drug control legislation is fit for the twenty-first-century drugs market.UK Drug Policy Commission, 15 May 2011

In Defense of Flogging
Generally those who wish to lessen the suffering of prisoners get too readily dismissed as bleeding hearts or soft on criminals. All the while, the public's legitimate demand for punishment has created, because we lack alternatives, the biggest prison boom in the history of the world.
Peter Moskos, Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 April 2011

The drug war hits Central America
Organised crime is moving south from Mexico into a bunch of small countries far too weak to deal with itEconomist, 14 April 2011

It's nonsense for David Willetts to say that women have stolen men's careers
The universities minister is still playing that convenient female-bashing game
Deborah Orr, Guardian, 7 April 2011

Has feminism blocked social mobility for men?
Feminism provided an obstacle to social mobility for working-class men, Cabinet minister David Willetts has controversially argued. But is he right?BBC News, 6 April 2011

Why David Willetts is wrong about feminism
Willetts is right that feminists are responsible for the plight of working class men. But not because they have stolen their jobs. Feminists – or at least the kind that have gained the upper hand in this varied movement – have undermined working class men with their philosophy that all males are expendable
Cristina Odone, Daily Telegraph, 1 April 2011

We don’t need to be saved from the ‘demon drink’
The old temperance movement was made up of working men who promoted self-control. Today booze-bashing is the preserve of a killjoy elite.
Josie Appleton, spiked, 23 March 2011

Faster. Higher. Stronger. Braver.
The cynics will claim that complete eradication of doping in sports is an impossibility, so embrace what is known, and educate athletes to use the substances responsibly. The idealist will recall that sports are beloved because they allow humans to go far beyond the potential that most people see in themselves, and in others.
Jennifer Gibson, BrainBlogger, 10 March 2011

An irreligious approach to abortion
Is it possible to come up with a non-religious justification for rejecting an unrestricted right to abortion?
Andrew Brown, Guardian, 28 February 2011