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Evolution? Children Do Adam and Eve It
by Richard Dawkins + Follow
The Times | September 2011
When children ask “where did I come from” they are quite capable of understanding, and being taught, evolution.
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Six Feet Under With Your Literary Heroes
by Jeanette Winterson + Follow
The Times | May 2011
Interviewing your favourite author is always a challenge, but even more so when he or she has been dead for years.
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The Kids Are All Right Makes Gay the New Normal
by Jeanette Winterson + Follow
The Times | September 2010
The surprise film success of the year is about gay mums. Have we finally arrived at a time when lesbians are no longer weird.
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Remembering Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010
by Peter Biskind + Follow
The Times | June 2010
‘I was scared to death of Dennis,’ said his wife. The violence, the drinking, the drugs: how did Hopper make 115 films?
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It's Murder Every Day in the Old Bailey
by David Smith + Follow
The Times | January 2010
Gang violence, terrorism, honour killings... it’s all in a day’s work at the Old Bailey. We're given unprecedented access to the hallowed halls of the criminal courts.
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Can You Move Diagonally?
by Jeanette Winterson + Follow
The Times | August 2009
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
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9/11 and the Cult of Death
by Martin Amis + Follow
The Times | September 2007
Our correspondent contends that our response to September 11 has been deficient. Radical Islam, he argues, must be recognised as a fanatical death cult, such as Nazism or Bolshevism.
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Einstein and Faith
by Walter Isaacson + Follow
The Times | April 2007
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Why There Is No God
by Richard Dawkins + Follow
The Times | October 2006
People who claim to have seen God are delusional and Thomas Aquinas’s logic was flawed, our correspondent argues in an extract from his bestselling book
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Authors in the Front Line: Martin Amis
by Martin Amis + Follow
The Times | February 2005
On the streets of Colombia, young boys cripple or murder each other just for showing disrespect or for winning at a game of cards. Is the taste for violence opening up a wound that can never heal?