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Are Britain and its retailers finally waking up to the reality of the size of the average woman? Is the obsession with uber-slender role models finally at an end? Or is this just a blip, and the pressure on women to skinny up will soon go on as before?
Thousands of travellers faced further chaos at the new Heathrow terminal, with dozens of flights still being cancelled after the problems that began on Thursday continued. What is it with the British and large-scale new projects? And, if we can’t get an airport terminal opened without such troubles, what price the 2012 Olympics?
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. Is this another scare story? Or are you worried? And, if so, what are going to do about it?
An evangelical Christian charity leading opposition to new laws on embryo research is funding interns in MPs offices, an IoS investigation has found. Is it right that such lobbying groups should directly fund people who work for MPs?
A new scheme to harness tidal power for our energy needs will place Britain at the forefront of technology to use the sea to generate electricity. Coastal waters could supply one-fifth of our energy needs. Is this the right way to go? Or is this merely tinkering at the green edges when what we need are large-scale conventional power stations?
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Once upon a time it was the coming academic discipline, but, according to one feminist, "most young women now avoid it like the plague". The final batch of students will graduate in the subject this summer. After that, the subject will disappear as an undergraduate study. Is this right? Premature? Or a sign that women have reached a level where such a gender-based subject is no longer needed?
David Cameron is launching a 'beer and sandwiches' initiative to establish connections with the nation's brothers and sisters, appointing an envoy to the TUDC, and even hoping to be the first leader of his party to be invited to address their conference. Is this a cynical ploy? Or is it a genuine effort to enlarge the Tory tent, in the way that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did with the City when they were in opposition?
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It's not just post offices that are closing. Rural schools, pubs, garages, shops and churches are disappearing. Sad, but inevitable social change? Or, like the major cuts in railways of the past, a permanent effect of short-term conditions which we will regret in years to come?
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