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Vagina: say it loud, Lisa Brown

Naomi Wolf: Conservatives can legislate on vaginas but if a woman says the word, it's a scandal?
- Join Friday's Q&A with Naomi Wolf and Lisa Brown: the vagina dialogue

Mendacious Mitt: Romney's bid to become liar-in-chief

Michael Cohen: Spin is normal in politics, but Romney is pioneering a cynical strategy of reducing fact and truth to pure partisanship
Public transportation: 'Don't like the cuts? Take a hike'

Daniel Denvir: The old consensus that mass transit drives the economy is gone: austerity-crazed Republicans aim to run it into the ground
Young immigrant campaigners achieve Dream scenario

Amy Goodman: The Obama administration's change of policy on undocumented immigrant youth just shows what committed activism can do
The 'Fast and Furious' duel between Issa and Obama

Ana Marie Cox: House Republicans hound Eric Holder over ATF bungling while the true scandal hides in plain view: legal guns, illegal drugs

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Michael Gove's GCSE plans will write off young people at the age of 16

Stephen Twigg: Improving education is about identifying the skills needed in future, not harking back to a nostalgic view of the past
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Germany v Greece: who are you supporting?

The eurozone crisis has moved to the football pitch as Greece take on Germany in tonight's Euro 2012 quarter final. With Chancellor Merkel due to attend the match and newspaper on both sides calling this the most political game in decades, who are you rooting for?
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'Silence is a lovely idea' – so why have churches become so noisy?

Mark Vernon: Quakers aside, it seems the church has shouted down its early traditions of silence and quiet meditation
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Why Zoo's Kim Kardashian cover is wrong

Helen Wright: The abundance of images sexualising and objectifying women does untold psychological damage to young people
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China should embrace house churches

Lijia Zhang: Instead of trying to curtail their growth, the state should encourage these hugely popular supportive organisations
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Michael Gove: failing the test

Editorial: The new CSE would predominantly be a certificate of the north and the poorer classes
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Steve Bell on Nick Clegg's opposition to Michael Gove's plan to ditch GCSEs - cartoon

The deputy PM has vowed to block changes to the education system proposed by the education secretary
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In praise of … people like Harry Potter

Editorial: Sharing names of the famous need not be an impediment to achievement, as the lawyer's TV series shows
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Q&A with Naomi Wolf and Lisa Brown: the vagina dialogue

Naomi Wolf and Lisa Brown: Last week, Michigan Rep Lisa Brown caused a storm when she used the word 'vagina'. Join Friday's webchat on why
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Public transportation: 'Don't like the cuts? Take a hike'

Daniel Denvir: The old consensus that mass transit drives the economy is gone: austerity-crazed Republicans aim to run it into the ground
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Mrs Merkel's Germany is Europe's one musketeer

Josef Joffe: The German chancellor's critics should stop accusing her of Teutonic arrogance. Why should she take on everyone's debts?
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Mr Assange is a man who put himself about as some one who is committed to transparency and wanted to shine the sun light on the shenanigans of the Western governments. He has appointed himself as an avenging angel for openness and transparency. Yet he is running away to that beckon of press freedom, freedom of speech and Human Rights that is Ecuador .
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Housing is hanging off its hinges. Could Labour fix it?

Polly Toynbee: It's no good leaving it to the market – regulation is urgently required to banish the culture of house-price gambling
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These tax scams are all legal – that's morally repugnant

Simon Jenkins: Cameron and Osborne thunder about the likes of Jimmy Carr, but seem terrified of upsetting the rich or closing tax havens

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Michael Gove: failing the test

21 Jun 2012, 18:46 EDT: Editorial: The new CSE would predominantly be a certificate of the north and the poorer classes

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Why can't Europe be more German? Slower, growth-friendly action …

Sebastian Dullien for Social Europe Journal: Germany's efforts to reduce its own structural deficit contrast sharply with the austerity imposed on nations such as Greece
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