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From faux pas to friendships
(4 minute read) Making friends in a new land means both losing and keeping one’s identity, as Lisa Fraser discovered.
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To buy or not to buy
(3 minute read) Nicole Law looks at the dilemmas of the catwalk and suggests it's time to engage in a new way of clothes shopping.
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Broken by Brexit
(2 minute read) Alessandra Pili describes how the UK’s vote to leave the European Union broke her Sardinian-Scottish heart.
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First day at school
(3 minute read) Marie McCoy describes the triumph and trauma experienced by parents as children take their first step on the educational ladder.
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The essential right to be objectionable
(7 minute read) Edward Kendall urges an examination of conscience to establish whether we are really as open-minded as we like to think we are.
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Rewriting the history books
(7 minute read) Maddy Fry examines how the efforts of a little known group of women have contributed to keeping racism alive in the southern US.
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Tribalism alert
(3 minute read) Dennis Relojo-Howell looks at how the cancer of tribalism is weakening our democracy, our harmony and our humanity.
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Where is the international outrage as Myanmar burns?
(4 minute read) World leaders are silent or impotent as barbaric generals lead the country to a humanitarian catastrophe, says Benedict Rogers.
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Painting the unseen
(4 minute read) Lisa Fraser meets artist James Earley whose portraits of people living on the edge of society are making waves.
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Hands off our GIFs!
(3 minute read) Jason Reed exposes the problem with too much regulation of the internet.