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Thanks to the Guardian’s intrepid reporting, Britain has been released from the malign influence of the Murdoch empire.

Why has natural selection always been the most contested part of evolutionary theory?

A clash between a feminist activist and a former Guantánamo detainee divides the left.

The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.

Iraq is America's colonial war. Arguments for maintaining colonial rule in India are almost identical to the justifications offered for the continuing presence of US troops in Iraq and escalation of the war.

Bush began the Iraq invasion before he went to Congress.

As Bush and his allies assail Newsweek, they continue to ignore the Downing Street memo.

After the Kinsey Report but before the first Penthouse Forum, John Updike wrote, "He kneels in a kind of sickness between her spread legs.

Shortly before he died, Bruce Chatwin found God. This was on top of Mount Athos, after which he left for Katmandu. Looking down from the bees and grapes, he had seen an iron cross on a wet rock.

The headline in the Sunday Times of London was spectacular: Lennon Funded Terrorists and Trotskyists. It was also erroneous.