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The internet: a force for good or evil? | Print |  Email
Charles Leadbeater weighs up the good and bad points of the world's growing interconnection.
 
Love the sinner, hate the sin | Print |  Email
The right wing of Israeli politics has convinced itself that they represent the country's best interests and everyone else is beyond salvation, writes Seth Freedman in Comment is Free
 
Religious schools 'show bias for rich' | Print |  Email
Damning new evidence that faith schools are siphoning off middle-class pupils can be revealed today, as research shows they are failing to take children from the poorest backgrounds nationwide. Even when they are situated in deprived inner-city areas, religious schools have fewer poor children than local authority secondary schools, reports Anushka Asthana, education correspondent of The Observer
 
Forget silly spats – let’s get devolution back on the agenda | Print |  Email
It is becoming increasingly difficult to believe anything other than there is a serious and growing schism between Labour in Scotland and in Westminster over how much power should be invested in Holyrood and how the UK should operate in the near future, opines The Sunday Herald
 
Adam Smith: the father of capitalism … and one of its fiercest critics | Print |  Email
American satirist PJ O’Rourke is in Edinburgh this week to address a pensions conference. In this extract from his acclaimed new book on Adam Smith, the “awed admirer” of the Scottish Enlightenment reveals the truth about Kirkcaldy’s greatest son. In the Sunday Herald
 
Speaking up for a victim of the class war | Print |  Email
Both Harold ("One Nation") Macmillan and Tony ("I am a Socialist because it stands for equality") Blair declared after their election wins in 1959 and 1997: "The class war is over." But more than 40 years after The Frost Report sketch, the class war is still being fought. Tom Brown defends  The Speaker of the House of Commons in Scotland on Sunday
 
The awful squeal of fundamentalism | Print |  Email
If the UN were to order us to 'respect all political beliefs', conservatives would say they weren't prepared to respect communists, leftists would say they weren't prepared to respect fascists and everyone else would burst out laughing. Yet the UN Human Rights Council is proposing in all seriousness to protect religion by doctoring its universal defence of freedom of expression, argues Nick Cohen in The Observer
 
Jewish students refuse to read Shakespeare | Print |  Email
Teenagers at a Jewish comprehensive school have refused to sit a Shakespeare test because they believe the Bard is anti-Semitic. Nine students at the single-sex Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School in Hackney, east London, took their stance as part of a protest against the portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, reports Richard Garner, Education Editor of The Independent
 
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