Slavoj Žižek: The Cologne attacks were an obscene version of carnival
Were the recent Cologne sex attacks a deliberate assault on western values and a middle-class sense of decency?
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After Cologne, we can’t let the bigots steal feminism
Why can’t we always take sexual assault as seriously as we do when migrants and Muslims are involved as perpetrators?
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David Cameron has borrowed Harold Wilson’s tactics – will he share his fate?
In 1975, Labour divided over Europe. In 1983, they were split – and crushed. Will the same happen to the…
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How to deal with the New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Cologne and Hamburg
Let’s just keep sticking up for the women. As far as being a black man of African descent goes, the…
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For many refugees, fleeing violence also means losing their families
More must – and can – be done to prevent families being torn apart.
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Is Donald Trump a fascist? It doesn’t matter
What matters more than any seminar room debate about what Le Pen, Trump and Orban should be called is this:…
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Tim Peake launches Britain and Europe into a new age of discovery
Major Tim Peake continues a great British tradition.
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Our brothers’ keepers: Harry Leslie Smith visits the “Jungle” in Calais
As a young British soldier in 1945, Harry Leslie Smith witnessed Europe’s last great refugee crisis. Now, aged 92, he…
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