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Scepticism
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In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.Human trafficking (Read More)
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Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
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Readers' responses to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiKiran Desai was not the first novelist who has come to speak to the Guardian book club and confessed to having second thoughts about the ending of her novel. Several (Read More)
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Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argu (Read More)
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Another skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle between climate scientists and so-called sceptics, and this one is likely to lead to more public confusionAnother skirmish has broken out in the long-running battle b (Read More)
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Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked onlineHundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate (Read More)
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Roger Helmer says Anglican hierarchy has dropped the gospel in favour of 'the new religion of climate alarmism'A Tory MEP has accused the Church of England of having "abandoned religious faith entirely and taken up the new re (Read More)
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Response from 88-year-old war veteran shoots down attempt to discredit letter published in Newsweek in support of Al GoreFor those of you who have not yet stumbled across his oeuvre before, James Delingpole does a nice turn (Read More)
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Mortgage lending rose by 5% in October, but the Council of Mortgage Lenders says the outlook for 2010 is only modestMortgage lending rose by 5% in October, in line with seasonal trends, but remained well below last year's fig (Read More)
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Confectionery empire under siege as two new firms join Kraft in trying to take over British firmThe embattled Cadbury confectionery empire faced a takeover siege on multiple fronts today as Italy's Ferrero and the US chocolat (Read More)
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This is a weekly email briefing from environmentguardian.co.uk, bringing you the best news, analysis and debateSign up here to get the briefing delivered to your inboxClimate and energyExclusive: Key oil figures 'distorted by (Read More)
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Leading environmental scientists and evangelical Christians join forces to lobby senators in support of the climate billThe handful of Senators trying to rustle up support for Obama's energy and climate change legislation in (Read More)
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A radical US advocate for psychiatric patients' rights brings to the UK his first-hand message that a diagnosis of mental illness is not a life sentenceDaniel Fisher was a young, idealistic man in his mid-20s, enjoying life i (Read More)
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We liveblog Sarah Palin's turn on Oprah Winfrey today, where she will flog her book, settle some scores, and give her presidential bid a boost.8.00pm: On Oprah Winfrey's wildly popular television chat show tonight, former Rep (Read More)
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• Tax on financial transactions proposed to pay for bailout• US reluctant to devote proceeds to international causesCampaigners are battling to build a transatlantic coalition to back proposals for a "Tobin tax" as a US congr (Read More)
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Key Conservative thinkers doubt climate change is man-made, according to a survey of the most influential Tories onlineAll of the top 10 Tory bloggers either doubt or dismiss the scientific consensus that climate change is ca (Read More)
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Amanda Baillieu has laid bare her utter contempt for environmentalism but failed to construct a solid argumentThe climate change debate has a habit of rearing up unexpectedly in all manner of places. In recent days, it's been (Read More)
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Overturned convictions and growth of DNA forensic evidence shake state's rock-solid faith in capital punishmentEven in Texas they are having their doubts. The state that executes more people than any other by far – it will ac (Read More)
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As long as it divides the Tehran regime, western diplomats are reluctant to give up entirely on a uranium dealThe patient has shown no sign of life for weeks, but no one is ready yet to declare it dead. The International Atom (Read More)
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Considerable effort has gone into Christopher Booker's definitive manual for sceptics. Shame he's talking bunk, says Philip BallChristopher Booker, Sunday Telegraph columnist and bete noir of climate campaigners, has here pro (Read More)
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