Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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The City of London feared the referendum, and shares were hit hard by the vote - but the latest economic data is reasonably positive
Tim Wallace, Telegraph, 19 August 2016
All-party committee of MPs says law must force councils to provide proper support for all people in danger of homelessness
Patrick Butler, Guardian, 18 August 2016
Lifting a ban on new selective schools would damage social mobility
The Economist, 13 August 2016
Both sides of the grammar-schools debate underestimate poor kids.
Gareth Strudy, Spiked, 12 August 2016
Nathaniel Popper, New York Times, 12 August 2016
The UK’s dark web drugs market now dwarfs any other in Europe
Adam Lusher, Independent, 10 August 2016
Alan Nasser, CounterPunch, 8 August 2016
Russian athletes have been banned from competing at the Rio 2016 Paralympics following the country's doping scandal.
BBC, 8 August 2016
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has always had ambitions of surpassing Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, as the country’s most consequential figure. Now, a failed coup may allow him finally to do that.
Tim Arango, New York Times, 7 August 2016
Technology has proved liberating in many ways but it has also turned out to have a disturbing effect on our senses
Janet Street-Porter, Independent, 5 August 2016
Life off Earth: are the aliens out there?
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Thomas Hylland Eriksen, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; novelist
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