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Sonia SodhaThe Guardian |
It was “a dark day”, according to a UN special rapporteur. Others lamented “a gross miscarriage of justice” and “a farce” marking...
A conference on changing demographics I attended last week tackled the fact that, while we are living longer – a great product of medical...
A friend of mine runs a residential writing retreat attended by women with experience of trauma and abuse. It is vital to those who take part that it...
Think of a man viewing images or footage of child sexual abuse online, and what comes to mind? I’d bet that for most of us this horrible thought...
All political parties face a trade-off under a first-past-the-post electoral system. Governing depends on attracting a broad coalition of voters,...
Moral logic that seems crystal clear on paper often becomes murkier on contact with reality. So it is with the question of how to pick a path...
It’s not often you find yourself nodding along with those with whom you normally profoundly disagree, and raising an eyebrow at the contributions of...
Life is a game of chance. Or that’s what I tell myself when I’m losing at my newest hobby, poker. Of course it’s a different story when I win...
‘First, do no harm” is the sacrosanct principle that is supposed to underpin modern medicine. But history is littered with examples of medics...
It’s rare to get a politician who openly admits they are torn on an issue, but in recent days there have been two striking examples. First, Wes...
We see a man giving a speech at his mother’s wake. It starts off as you might expect. But he goes on to tell us how his mother died multiple times...
Nobody could have predicted that Keir Starmer’s waistline would have become one of the talking points of budget week. But a throwaway comment by...
Who determines whether a play can get staged? In the unnamed authoritarian regime that serves as the dramatic backdrop for A Mirror, the answer is...
High interest rates mean that, for the vast majority of recent graduates in England, student loans have become the equivalent of running up a down...
Sometimes the people around you scramble reality to turn up into down, black into white and open into closed. That’s how Prof Jo Phoenix must have...
What happens when a parent’s right to decide how to bring up their child comes into conflict with that child’s right to a safe, fulfilled life?...
Look at patterns of criminal offending, and one of the first things to stand out is the differences between men and women. Men dominate when it comes...
The Scottish school system was once the jewel in the British educational crown. With good standards and low levels of social inequality, it was seen...