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Carols at Christmas
Lisa Jardine reflects on the power of music to move, especially at Christmas.
Climate Change Belief
Lisa Jardine thinks selective hearing skews the debate over climate change.
Beware the Experts
Lisa Jardine recalls CP Snow's lessons on the dangers of government by experts.
Lisa Jardine: Finding Family History
The historian Lisa Jardine finds herself converted to family history.
The Oxbridge Interview
Mary Beard reflects on the purpose of the much-maligned 'Oxbridge interview'.
Reflections on Monetary Union
Mary Beard reflects on the very first monetary union, two and a half thousand years ago.
On Age and Beauty
Mary Beard takes a peek at Miss World 2011 and ponders the upsides of middle age.
Mary Beard: On Tyrants
Mary Beard on the uncanny similarities between Colonel Gaddafi and tyrants in ancient Rome
The Arms Trade
Will Self deplores the arms trade, Britain's role in it and the euphemisms around it.
Class, race and social mobility
Will Self reflects that racism is rarely a sole cause of social injustice.
