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Making globalisation pay

February 2010 - Big corporations are using the banking crisis as an excuse for exploiting cheap labour. Is it time for a global minimum wage?

What a queer language

January 2010 - From 'gay girls' to 'shagging flies', the changing meaning of English words causes no end of confusion.

Tis the season to be sociable

December 2009 - The British are famously reserved, but so are the Belgians. Let's break the ice and make the public sphere more friendly.

Bugging the culinary operating system

September 2009 - Elevating food to celebrity status has turned the theory of motivation upside. It’s time to stick one up the foodies.

Faith and desire in Albert Square

August 2009 - EastEnders is breaking new ground on gay issues by exploring what happens when Muslim boy meets boy – but marries girl.

New model citizens

August 2009 - Tougher naturalisation laws are counterproductive. What we need is to redefine our understanding of citizenship.

TV's desperate Muslim romantics

August 2009 - Sexual relationships among ethnic minorities offer richer dramatic pickings than cliched stories about arranged marriage.

What about the Western warlords?

July 2009 - Cherie Blair’s chastisement of the African Union for not co-operating with the International Criminal Court is pretty rich coming from the wife of a man many believe is a war criminal.

Equality: not even in death

July 2009 - Tragic as the deaths of young British soldiers in Afghanistan are, why is the media not mourning Afghan civilian casualties?

Losing the plot

July 2009- Wacky conspiracy theories cause damage by drawing attention away from the real plots being hatched by our governments.

All continents on the Western Front

November 2008 - It is time European countries acknowledged the part soldiers from their former colonies played in the First World War.

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