Reading for Battle
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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Liberty & Law
Lib Dems vote overwhelmingly to set up panel to consider decriminalising drugs
Motion also offers show of support for Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, following high profile resignations from body
Paul Owen, Guardian, 18 September 2011
Motion also offers show of support for Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, following high profile resignations from body
Paul Owen, Guardian, 18 September 2011
Is the working woman allowed to get rich on screen?
Since the crash films about money-making are required to carry a strong moral health warning.
, 16 September 2011
Since the crash films about money-making are required to carry a strong moral health warning.
, 16 September 2011
Under the Influence
Under the Influence investigates how far parenting style affects those children’s drinking behaviour in later life. It analyses data of several thousand children from two separate data sets and compares how their parents raised them against the child’s drinking habits in adolescence and adulthood.
Jamie Bartlett and Matt Grist, Demos, 16 September 2011
Under the Influence investigates how far parenting style affects those children’s drinking behaviour in later life. It analyses data of several thousand children from two separate data sets and compares how their parents raised them against the child’s drinking habits in adolescence and adulthood.
Jamie Bartlett and Matt Grist, Demos, 16 September 2011
ANC Julius Malema's Shoot the Boer ruled 'hate speech'
South Africa's high court has ruled that the anti-apartheid song Shoot the Boer is hate speech and banned the ruling ANC from singing it.
BBC News, 11 September 2011
South Africa's high court has ruled that the anti-apartheid song Shoot the Boer is hate speech and banned the ruling ANC from singing it.
BBC News, 11 September 2011
Ten years on, America is at war with itself
I write this under surveillance, or so it’s safe to assume. We are all suspects now; we all read, write, talk on the phone and travel under surveillance, or the threat of it.
Wendy Kaminer, spiked, 8 September 2011
I write this under surveillance, or so it’s safe to assume. We are all suspects now; we all read, write, talk on the phone and travel under surveillance, or the threat of it.
Wendy Kaminer, spiked, 8 September 2011
Ken Clarke says riots 'legacy of broken penal system'
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has blamed the 'broken penal system' for the riots that erupted across England last month.
BBC News, 6 September 2011
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has blamed the 'broken penal system' for the riots that erupted across England last month.
BBC News, 6 September 2011
The problem with tolerance
Dragged into the politicisation of identity, tolerance has become a form of 'polite etiquette', argues Frank Furedi in a new book
Madeleine Bunting, Guardian Comment is free, 5 September 2011
Dragged into the politicisation of identity, tolerance has become a form of 'polite etiquette', argues Frank Furedi in a new book
Madeleine Bunting, Guardian Comment is free, 5 September 2011
'Legal highs' prevalence makes ban policy 'ridiculous'
Prohibition approach is 'irrational' say experts as one new synthetic psychoactive substance appears every week
Mark Townsend, Guardian, 3 September 2011
Prohibition approach is 'irrational' say experts as one new synthetic psychoactive substance appears every week
Mark Townsend, Guardian, 3 September 2011
If only phone hacking were the real scandal
The state’s abuse of power makes News of the World hacks look tame
Brendan O'Neill, Spectator, 20 August 2011
The state’s abuse of power makes News of the World hacks look tame
Brendan O'Neill, Spectator, 20 August 2011
Islam and democracy
Again and again, in secular and liberal circles in Beirut, Cairo, Rabat, Tunis and even Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, you hear almost identical dark warnings against the Islamist movements that are gaining ground across the Arab world as dictators are toppled, tackled or forced into concessions.
Economist, 6 August 2011
Again and again, in secular and liberal circles in Beirut, Cairo, Rabat, Tunis and even Ramallah, the seat of the Palestinian Authority, you hear almost identical dark warnings against the Islamist movements that are gaining ground across the Arab world as dictators are toppled, tackled or forced into concessions.
Economist, 6 August 2011
Litigation and Litigation Avoidance
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