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Politics
Break-up Britain: Andrew Marr on the imperilled state of the Union
Forget the froth. Deep tides are now pushing Scotland its own way, and washing against the very idea of the UK
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Philosophy
Should a lawyer ever refuse to act in an unpleasant case?
Recent examples have brought an old legal and philosophical question back to the fore
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Society
Homeschooling has revealed the absurdity of England’s national curriculum
My eight-year-old daughter is being called to spot expanded noun phrases. My 11-year-old son fills in checklists of "success criteria." Are we raising children or robots?
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Culture
The mind of God? The problem with deifying Stephen Hawking
A new biography argues the iconic physicist was shamelessly self-promoting and his reputation overrated
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