burns
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IImage of the week
In honour of Burns Night on 25 January, on which Scotland’s greatest and most beloved poet is celebrated…
feynman
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SScience & Technology
Richard Feynman is 100% my favourite scientist of all time (and I have many favourites). The Nobel Laureate…
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PPhilosophy & Religion
It took only one small cross to expose the extraordinary gap between what I felt and what the world insisted on seeing. 
fragility
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IInternational
It is a familiar, though no less arresting, spectacle to watch a clerical patriarch draped in the robes…
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IInternational
A new nationwide wave of protest has spread across Iran since 28 December 2025. Initially triggered by acute…
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PPhilosophy & Religion
Despite achieving constitutional separation from the Catholic Church after much bloodshed, the French state is still subservient to the Church when it comes to child abuse, says Keith Porteous Wood.