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‘Fake news’ is a meaningless term that is used for anti-democratic propaganda. We should all stop using it.
A philosopher’s take on the ethics of products that allow parents to lighten the skin colour of their unborn baby.
Like many other parts of the UK, Scotland faces problems in attracting a migrant workforce that is crucial to the country’s future prosperity.
A new research project is helping Nigerien women access valuable, accurate information from which they are too often cut off.
The opinions of current sex workers must be sought before any changes are made to the law governing the websites they use.
Accusations of election rigging, opposition parties enraged and international relations tense. It won’t be an easy term for the man most likely to lead Pakistan.
The Supreme Court ruled that a British couple must stay married until 2020 because there was no ‘fault’ in their marriage.
Some ‘celebrity’ atheists espouse the very doctrines of violence that they accuse organised religon of.
With MPs on a summer break, Brexit takes a rest too, right? Wrong.
The young activist acted morally and intelligently when staging her protest against the deportation of asylum seekers from Sweden.
New! Mega sports events wash your government’s tarnished reputation whiter-than-white.
Trump’s former campaign manager is on trial for tax charges but his travails could cause problems for the White House.
New data shows 73 pregnant women were detained for immigration reasons between July 2016 and November 2017.
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An audio version of a long read article on the history of infertility, 40 years after the first baby was born via IVF.
There are no angels in Pakistan’s political scene – except the ‘angels’ of the military.
Oleg Sentsov’s trial was a farce, but the world continues to ignore his plight.
The British home secretary has decided not to seek assurances from the US that it wouldn’t use the death penalty for an IS duo arrested in Syria. This must be opposed.
Secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Now new research shows that it was secularisation which came first.
It’s still rare for cases of coercive control to reach prosecution.
A survey of British Remain supporters living elsewhere in the EU after the referendum found feelings of shame and loss about what they felt their country had become.
Social supermarkets help those struggling from food poverty – but they mask our broken food system.
Most big bureaucratic organisations are subject to oversight from civil society, but not FIFA.
If you believe everything you read, Germany is facing the abyss. But there’s actually a lot to be hopeful about.