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Tara Isabella Burton on America’s new religions

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What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

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Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

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How to fix the economy

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What difference does he make?

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Ancient bones of contention

The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons

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The missing variable in the masculinity crisis

The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone

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Charles Cornish-Dale

The Cup and me

My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England

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What the Brits can learn from Ireland

A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history

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The delusions of the DCMS

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Seeing colour

Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre

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Pierre d’Alancaisez

A frozen war?

The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran

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The last ponies on the moor

Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango

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