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Tim Winn Folk DevilsTen Years On: Guantánamo

British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith is a notorious freedom fighter. He explains about the impact of Guantánamo ten years on.

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The ‘Velvet Atheist’

The renowned philosopher AC Grayling talks about the new Oxbridge, the Good Book and his perfectly bouffant hair.

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Under a supermodel’s skin

Therese Kerr, mother of super model Miranda Kerr talks about her passion for organic skincare.

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Tom WitherowFinding Strength

Do workout supplements and protein shakes do what they say on the tin? But what is the science behind the substance.

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The Ghurkas in York

Gurkhas have served in the British armed forces for almost 200 years, but are the sacrifices these soldiers are making off the battlefield going unnoticed?

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Images reproduced with kind permission of Polly Borland and Mark VesseyDignified Dysmorphia

Polly Borland photographs adults as transvestite babies, and Berlusconi. But what is it all about?

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Watching in the Wings

Family politics has forced David Milliband to reconsider his career. Martin Spurr finds out why it’s not the end

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A beautiful, invisible truth

It affects more people than we realise and seems to go hand in hand with intellectual brilliance. Bella Foxwell discovers what life is like living with Asperger’s

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Photo Credit: jessebuckscAdopting Equality

The first week of November was National Adoption Week, but adopting for same-sex couples is still tainted with prejudice.

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Homeless in York

What’s the reality behind our cosy medieval city? Hannah Ellis-Petersen talks to two of York’s teens who have been forced to find a home on the streets.

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Billy Bragg

“I’m great, you’re shit, do you like my socks?” As summations of pop music today go, few cut through the superficiality of the mainstream quite so effectively

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The Oppression U-turn

The African National Congress (ANC) has been thrown into turmoil by the controversial youth leader Julius Malema. But could this have some troubling consequences for the rest South Africa as a whole?

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The Great Escape

Meet Roslyn Walker, the UK’s leading Escapologist. He gets out of stuff for a living. Sophie Walker finds out why

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India’s hidden war

Attacks by terrorist group the Naxalites never reach the news. Jack Barton investigates why

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Immortalising the iCulture

“He achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: He changed the way each of us sees the world” said President Barack Obama in his speech to commemorate the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died last Wednesday at the age of 56, from cancer.

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