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John Ivison: Everything else being equal, it pays to be a woman in politics, new research finds
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in economics
Charlie Hebdo has had a long tradition of disrespect and provocation
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in economics
For Muslim apostates, giving up their faith can be terrifying, alienating and dangerous
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in economics
It is important to be disrespectful of religion
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in liberalism Tags: The Age of Enlightenment
HT: Stephen Berry
On blasphemy against Monty Python
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in economics of media and culture, liberalism, TV shows Tags: Blasphemy, Monty Python
HT: Tyler Cowen
Egypt to double size of ‘buffer zone’ along Gaza border
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in politics - USA, war and peace Tags: blockades, Egypt, Gaza Strip, left-wing double standards, Left-wing hypocrisy
Where is the international protest movement? Once again, the only explanation is that they must have been kidnapped.
There is no other reason why they are not protesting against Egypt’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in the same way they protest against the breaches of international law involved in the Israeli blockade!
More homes face demolition as Egyptian security forces warn people a buffer zone with Gaza is to be extended.
‘Inside Story’, Al Jazeera, 5 December 2014
Egypt plans to double the size of a buffer zone along its border with the Gaza Strip.
The [Egyptian] government says the measure is intended to put an end to the movement of armed fighters and weapons from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The first phase of the operation began in October, days after 30 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on a checkpoint close to the Gaza border.
Thousands of people in northern Sinai were ordered to move out. Their homes were then bulldozed and bombed. The buffer zone runs for about 13km along Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
The first phase cleared an area 500 metres wide, destroying homes and tunnels used for smuggling. The security buffer is…
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Voltaire on who rules us
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The Japanese fertility rates have actually been rising since 1995
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in applied welfare economics, population economics
HT: Noah Smith
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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