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The name-calling behaviour has only otherwise been observed in humans Dogs bark, cats meow. Birds chirp and dolphins squeal. In between the vast array of sounds made by animals of all shapes and sizes ...

US marines raise the American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, 1945. Credit: Joe Rosenthal Year: 1943. Somewhere in occupied Europe a brave band of brothers are trying to sabotage Nazi ...

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The imprisoned Nigerian humanist has had his sentence reduced – but the scourge of blasphemy laws remains Mubarak Bala, the imprisoned Nigerian humanist, has had his sentence reduced and is now due to ...

British politics has never been so rife with defectors. Why does the feeling of being betrayed provoke such a powerful response? So I spread my robe over you and covered your nakedness, and I entered ...

Clare Chambers is a professor of political philosophy and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Her work deals with contemporary liberalism, social construction, feminism, and social ...