Mark Steel People who have no interest in sports aren't just expressing a matter of taste, they're wrong, as much as someone who dismisses music or theater.
August 21, 2008 The Olympic charter bans "political propaganda"--as if the decision to choose Beijing or any other city to host the Games has nothing to do with politics.
August 15, 2008 The reason novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn appeared so contradictory is a question at the center of the second half of the 20th century.
August 12, 2008 The campaign of Barack Obama has unleashed hope that may not be so easily controlled, in spite of the Democratic candidate's intentions.
July 23, 2008 The right-wing Sun newspaper in Britain has been exposed for fabricating stories that smear Muslims as hate-filled fanatics.
July 16, 2008 Hunger is on the rise, but rather than take any real action, the world's leaders can only think about making a profit off misery.
June 26, 2008 According to the report of one think tank, there's a "lost generation" that despises mathematics because of the way it's taught in school.
June 10, 2008 New reports show how British politicians pad their expense claims--but they're so out of touch, they don't understand why ordinary people are aghast.
June 3, 2008 A court case currently underway against antiwar activists in Belfast seems to show plainly that nothing makes any sense.
May 26, 2008 The excitement in the British football season wasn't found in the top-level Premier League, where teams almost always finish in order of how rich they are.
May 19, 2008 A man who spent 14 years waiting to be Britain's prime minister doesn't seem to have any coherent reason for wanting the job.
May 12, 2008 There was much more to the revolutionary year 1968 than the common appraisal today--that it was a frivolous episode involving a few hippies and students.
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