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Mum’s the word
The virus has broken Edinburgh. The shattered remnants of the festival are visible on the internet. Here’s what happened. The…
Whores of phwoar: women talking dirty
Jonathon Green is a tosher. As a lexicographer he dives into archives and emerges with armfuls of slangy curios, such…
Is it ok for Muslim parents to stop their kids having non-Muslim pals?
Is it all right for the Muslim parents of children at British state schools to prevent their sons and daughters…
The breast test
New mothers who can’t keep to the breast-feeding orthodoxy face needless misery and shame
The mother of all problems
Nina Stibbe has a way with children. Her first book, a memoir, was a deceptively wide-eyed view of a literary…










