Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: It takes an outsider to see just how rotten this state can be
Week in, week out, plain-speaking natives out there notify me that I will always be an unwelcome alien, never properly British. They are right. We immigrants are destined to be insider-outsiders. The hope is that our children will belong – but their birthright too is often contested. It’s all very exhausting and hurtful, yet there are advantages too. Incomers can never share the smug patriotism …
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Fixing Blame: Knee-jerk reactions to Tucson tragedy include partisan rhetoric, finger-pointing and calls for gun …
Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of shooting 20 people outside a Tucson grocery store, probably will never get a chance to create the “new money system” he discusses in one of his rambling YouTube videos. But he can still have an important effect on public policy — if we let him.
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Happy birthday, Vui Kong
Two years have passed since Sabahan Yong Vui Kong was sentenced to death by a Singapore court for a drug offence. As campaigns to save him continue relentlessly, he has turned to Buddhism, meditates and counsels other inmates and prison wardens.
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