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Mark Smith: We need to understand more, and condemn less I WAS reviled when I read accounts of what happened in the car park of Edinburgh's Omni Centre in January, when two teenage girls attacked a 13-year-old girl they knew, while a boy of the same age filmed and seemingly directed the whole scene

Tiffany Jenkins: Check the history before making demands AT THE heart of a battle over culture, ownership and identity are 93 kings and queens, bishops and pawns, intricately carved out of walrus ivory and whales' teeth.

Tery Murden: Signs good for Legal and General if it can just nab Stewart WHEN he announced that he was stepping down from National Australia Bank, John Stewart said he was open-minded about any new job offers. That was precisely a year ago and it looks like the Scot who fixed NAB after its foreign-currency trading scandal

Stephen McGinty: Sign of sad society when cry for help goes unanswered IN 1973, Harlan Ellison, the science fiction writer with a voice like a ballpeen hammer on broken glass, wrote a disturbing short story called The Whimper of Whipped Dogs. It was about a student murdered in the courtyard of a New York apartment block

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