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Contraception is free and uncontroversial, sex education sensible and gay relationships are becoming normalised
Mary Ann Sieghart
Which ideas will endure for at least another century?” was one of the questions we were posed at a thought-provoking conference over the weekend. We considered and dismissed democracy – in the past century, it’s been overthrown by communism, fascism and autocracy – and capitalism, which even now seems a little under threat. One concept, though, kept bubbling up into my mind: love.
Whether you worship the Beatles or the Bible doesn’t matter. Love is either all you need or it’s greater even than faith and hope, and all three will endure. It’s the biggest contributor to human happiness, and if politicians dare to intrude into our love lives, they can have a more profound effect than any tinkering with taxes or the national curriculum. Which is why women and gay men should be deeply grateful that, in this era, we live in Britain and not the United States…………………………
After the murder of their Israeli-born director, the students of a tiny theatre in Jenin refugee camp are fighting to save their dreams, writes Killian Fox