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Dangerous disabled people I

Dangerous disabled people I

Sinners tend to be more interesting than saints. Wickedness and wrongdoing seem to fascinate more than good deeds and gallantry, so instead of disabled role models...

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Muntadar al-Zaidi my hero

  • By Richard Herring
  • 19 December

If only that shoe had hit Bush. It wouldn’t have compensated for the hundreds of thousands of people who have died in Iraq, but it would have been a good start

Tree-hugging, American-style

  • By Owen Sheers
  • 18 December

A hornet's nest for Obama

  • By Lindsey Hilsum
  • 18 December

Rise of the new Anglo-world order

  • By Jonathan Derbyshire
  • 18 December

It's an old controversy that was reignited this autumn by the remarks of a Nobel Prize judge: is American literature too insular, preoccupied only with the home country? If so, what else should we be reading in the age of globalisation?

Shazia's week

  • By Shazia Mirza
  • 18 December

Liza Minnelli jiving like a panther on Ecstasy and Obama condoms - some bits of history can't be missed

Outlook stormy for Obama

  • By Hugh O'Shaughnessy
  • 15 December

The inclusion in Obama's team of so many figures from the past heralds the continuation of the policies of the past, some of which, even among Bushites, were seen to be stupid

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Somalia nearing disaster

Somalia nearing disaster

Unthinkable as it may seem Somalia looks set to plunge into a wave of even greater chaos when Ethiopian and African Union troops withdraw later this month

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  • By John Pilger
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  • By James Macintyre
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  • By Alec MacGillis
  • 27 November 2008

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  • By John Pilger
  • 27 November 2008

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  • By York Membery
  • 27 November 2008

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