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What To Do If You Suspect Child Abuse?

Mandatory reporting of suspicions of child abuse may sound like a good idea, but it would make prosecutions less, not more, likely

November 25, 2013

Features·Justice·Policing

Three-Parent Babies — Miracle Cure or Eugenics?

The HFEA's proposal to permit mitochondria replacement would alter our genetic constitution—a risky and unethical step too far

November 25, 2013

Features·Science

London by Night: In the Footsteps of Dickens

The city’s great chronicler hit the streets to cure his insomnia. His writing cast a spell on me and now I go for nocturnal walks of my own

November 25, 2013

Features·Literature·Modern Life

Off-Limits: Subjects Artists Won’t Tackle

Far from being cutting-edge, the British cultural establishment ignores the biggest threat to artistic freedom: radical Islam

November 25, 2013

Art·Faith·Features·Islam

A Personal Story of Memory and Survival

Simon Schama's Story of the Jews may contain some serious omissions, but this haunting history is both captivating and enchanting.

October 30, 2013

Books·Judaism

What Makes Her Tick?

Will the real Angela Merkel please stand up? After reading Stefan Kornelius’s official biography the German Chancellor remains a mystery

October 30, 2013

Books·Germany

Beware the Sanguine Banker

Iain Martin’s message in his excellent Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy is that a proper sense of fear is good for bankers.

October 30, 2013

Books·Economy

Anarchic Interregnum

Ian Buruma's Year Zero deftly tells the story of 1945: the year the modern world began

October 30, 2013

Books·History

Saintly Networkers

Kate Cooper’s pacy tale of heroines, virgins and martyrs recounts the largely unknown role of women in shaping the early Church

October 30, 2013

Books·History·The Catholic Church·The Church of England

A London Fairytale

Characterisation and a sense of place have been sacrificed for a magical realist atmosphere in Peter Ackroyd’s latest novel, Three Brothers

October 30, 2013

Books·Literature

Whodunnit? Who Cares?

Perhaps the Booker judges awarded Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries the prize to ensure that their getting through all 836 exhausting pages of her frustrating novel wasn’t in vain

October 29, 2013

Books·Literature

Lessons For Librarians Of London’s Folio Fiasco

A plan to sell four Shakespeare Folios revealed a widespread underappreciation of rare books

October 29, 2013

Critique·Literature

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