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Fear of social judgement and the effects of trauma often silence those who are sexually assaulted. A new essay collection sets out to liberate them from shame
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A sense of disbelief has always stopped me calling the police. And many friends have reacted in the same way. But new figures show things might be changing
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Spicer did his best, but he was never going to last long
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While my friends enjoyed exciting summers, I worked in my father’s warehouse. As well as cementing family bonds, it cultivated my imagination
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The new president of the UK’s most senior court has years of experienceThough Justice is usually portrayed as a woman, it has in general been embodied by men. Brenda Hale,
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Readers relate their experiences of Britain’s cruel policy of holding immigrants in de facto prisonsHugh Muir asks if we should be proud of a system that indefinitely detains 3,000 men, women and children at any one time (
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Readers engage with Owen Jones’s enthusiasm for the Labour leaderOwen Jones suggests that “to understand the future, we must reconsider the past” (
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First-class degrees | Female saints | Rambutan | Tennis and nationality | Sheep v giant hogweed | LitterGosh! How clever we have all become. Fifty years ago, only the top 2% of the population went to university and about 10% of them got firsts, so 0.2% of the population. Now, 30% go to uni, and 25% of them get firsts (
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There are as yet no concrete proposals capable of being agreed on the conundrum of the Irish border, the size of the so-called divorce bill or the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and British citizens in Europe
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During the US presidential campaign Trump declared he wanted to work with Russia in Jordan. After getting to the White House he stated that support for the rebels would be ended. But then he bombed President Assad's forces, giving hope to the Rebels
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Brexit's going badly – but look: Boris Johnson's shaking a robot's hand in Tokyo!
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This week I was caught up in a ‘gotcha’ storm. The headlines should have been about the alarming rise in crime, not about an interview stumble
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Non-combatants in the city found themselves in a catch-22: told by US-led Coalition forces to get away from Isis positions before they were shelled; yet threatened with execution by Isis if they tried to escape
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I want my licence fee to filter down to the workforce at the coalface, not to someone checking 'delivery' or a nerd whose role is defined as an 'identity architect'
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I was married to a burly Canadian once, who had been a professional footballer. He was a real macho man – except if someone put a tomato on his plate. He would recoil in fear, and step away from the table
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Glacial progress, the UK's lack of clarity and the political uncertainty in London, have persuaded EU member states to draw up contingency plans for no deal
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From the terrible recommendations of Conservative think tanks to Obama's tweet about John McCain's brain cancer
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A controversial group from around the world is in Sicily ‘defending European culture’ by ‘monitoring’ migrant rescues. It’s a worrying precedent
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Local MP Eleanor Smith raised concerns over the emblem – and caused outrage. But the region’s connection to slavery cannot be ignored
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The chief pharmacist’s comments in defence of a refusal to lower the drug’s price has caused a backlash in the feminist community. Hardly surprising, really
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Seeing so many posts from countless people about how Chester Bennington helped them overcome their own personal struggles should be enough to make us realise that so many of us are, in fact, struggling on our own
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A quick-drying metaphor, an obscure military term and a carpenters' affliction in this week's Independent
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While we can celebrate the North Sea cod’s revival we can only achieve sustainability with fishing methods that are less destructive to the ecosystem
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I was banned from the Students' Union for calling girls who didn't respond to my advances 'dykes' and almost fired from work for my inappropriately sexual behaviour. I saw nothing wrong with harassing people I barely knew for threesomes and told a female bartender I'd 'like to see her head on a stick'
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Technology means we could soon be able to ‘translate’ barks. We really need better ways to understand their needs
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Listen to GP Youssef El-Gingihy read and discuss his viral piece about why the NHS has already been abolished
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Britain is going to leave the EU, as commanded by the electorate. But leave has a thousand meanings. An interim deal must be chosen over chaos
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Without going as far as Newland did, many aspects of her testimony match my own experience. Can you ever stop people pretending not to be themselves?
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With Morgan Stanley quitting the City, the question is no longer if Brexit will damage the UK financial services industry – but how bad the damage will be
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By leaving we can have the sort of radical socialist programme that would be illegal under EU law
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Everything, including recent floods, is blamed on Erdoğan’s enemies. It makes me fear for the future of my country
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