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Oxbridge can lead the way by keeping tuition fees down | Priyamvada Gopal
Oxford and Cambridge universities are in a better position than many to resist the temptation to charge £9,000 feesAs befuddled government ministers blink into the mess created by the rushed...
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Trafalgar has much in common with Tahrir | Priyamvada Gopal
It is simplistic to say western protests are fundamentally different to those in the Middle East because we are not fighting despotsThis Saturday, one iconic square, Trafalgar, is to be turned into...
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David Willetts' wrecking ball | Priyamvada Gopal
The selling of places to the wealthy is at one with the coalition's destructive policies on universitiesBefore the predictable and hasty denials emerged, angry incredulity greeted universities minister...
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Yes, poor white Britons suffer discrimination. But not racial | Priyamvada Gopal
'Reverse racism' or 'failed multiculturalism' are myths to deflect the real source of blame: an ever deeper economic riftAs America's first black presidential couple were being toasted across Europe...
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Protest and the faculty of outrage | Priyamvada Gopal
The phone-hacking reaction is no temper tantrum. But the moral deployment of anger takes effort and honestyThe first day of August announces the end of a month of emotions. July brought disgust and...
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Oprah and the philanthropy that chokes | Priyamvada Gopal
Billionaire celebrities want to save the world Oprah Winfrey-style. But their giving has a priceMedia empress Oprah Winfrey has been nominated for a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt award, for those...
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Hurricane Irene could never take from Americans what the banks already have |...
Manufactured hysteria about the storm is all the more disturbing because it underscores the lack of response to preventable illsIt's a disaster. I am in small-town Massachusetts, listening to tropical...
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A new kind of class warfare | Priyamvada Gopal
Michael Gove's A-level proposal will return us to the days when only the privileged were likely to go to universitySo Michael Gove, the education secretary, wants to give more power to academics at...
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Mau Mau verdict: Britain must undo its imperial amnesia | Priyamvada Gopal
The case brought by elderly Kikuyu tortured in the Kenyan emergency allows a more honest account of Britain's identityThe high court will shortly issue a verdict in a case brought before it by three...
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How privilege-blindness stops us understanding the roots of terrorism |...
From Cameron's 'Indian dance' remark to the discussion of Breivik's motives, the invisibility of whiteness distorts debateAn independent inquiry has established that Anders Behring Breivik, the...
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Turning vegetarian will not solve the food crisis | Priyamvada Gopal
Scientists say we should all give up meat. But inequality is a bigger factor in food shortages, and the poor have few choicesFood culture in Britain has happily changed for the better since the early...
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After the death of the Delhi rape victim, the fight for women's rights must...
The collective outrage galvanised by the Delhi rape can help make visible a wider spectrum of sexual violence in IndiaThe young woman who died on Saturday in a Singapore hospital, rendered there by an...
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The Emancipation Proclamation and the politics of self-liberation |...
The 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's document reminds us that freedom is the work of groups, not individualsOn a cold bright New Year's Day 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln finally signed the...
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Is compulsory coupledom really the best way to live? | Priyamvada Gopal
We are in thrall to the amped-up rhetoric of romance, but the primacy of the couple has political and social consequencesNow that parliamentary sanction finally extends to gay couples who wish to...
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Caste discrimination in the UK must be outlawed | Priya Gopal
No community should be exempt from equalities legislation. The government should stop blocking this extension of fairness to allImagine if, after obtaining a care package from social services, you...
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David Willetts' wrecking ball | Priyamvada Gopal
The selling of places to the wealthy is at one with the coalition's destructive policies on universitiesBefore the predictable and hasty denials emerged, angry incredulity greeted universities minister...
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Yes, poor white Britons suffer discrimination. But not racial | Priyamvada Gopal
'Reverse racism' or 'failed multiculturalism' are myths to deflect the real source of blame: an ever deeper economic riftAs America's first black presidential couple were being toasted across Europe...
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Protest and the faculty of outrage | Priyamvada Gopal
The phone-hacking reaction is no temper tantrum. But the moral deployment of anger takes effort and honestyThe first day of August announces the end of a month of emotions. July brought disgust and...
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Oprah and the philanthropy that chokes | Priyamvada Gopal
Billionaire celebrities want to save the world Oprah Winfrey-style. But their giving has a priceMedia empress Oprah Winfrey has been nominated for a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt award, for those...
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Hurricane Irene could never take from Americans what the banks already have |...
Manufactured hysteria about the storm is all the more disturbing because it underscores the lack of response to preventable illsIt's a disaster. I am in small-town Massachusetts, listening to tropical...
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