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Heather Mallick
Canadian author
and journalist

Doris Lessing’s
2007 Nobel Speech 

In Defence of Books
I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in 1956, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires.
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2007-08-20 Worshipping at the altar of Cheap
2007-08-13 How Michael Ignatieff put the 'I' in Iraq
2007-08-06 Name games
2007-07-30 Emerald City, Iraq
2007-07-23 Bitterosity
2007-07-16 Selling the news
2007-07-09 Fashion crimes: Men in shorts
2007-07-02 Tony Blair
2007-06-22 It's always about skin
2007-06-18 The inadequacy of some students will be revealed
2007-06-08 Dion biography paints 'comfortable' man
2007-06-01 Going Public
2007-05-25 New book, new logic, familiar theme
2007-05-21 Challenging authority
2007-05-14 Principals of economics
2007-05-07 Resigned to stay
2007-04-30 Artful stroll
2007-04-20 Abortion rights and abortion fights
2007-04-16 Big Brother Britain
2007-04-09 Confusing the virtual world with reality
2007-04-02 Inadvisable remarks
2007-03-26 I want my election now!
2007-03-19 It's the future: stupid
2007-03-09 Childhood jeopardies
2007-03-05 To air is human; to fly, bovine
2007-02-23 Magazines: where are the women writers?
2007-02-19 TV drama 24: torture teacher
2007-02-12 We aim to … passably suffice
2007-02-02 Let me explain myself
2007-01-26 Warning: inappropriate addiction can be fatal
2007-01-22 Unnecessary surgery
2007-01-15 Action and overreaction in America
2007-01-08 Climate change forecast limited to weather, not politics
2007-01-01 No more high hopes
2006-12-25 Saints & standouts 2006
2006-12-15 Staying connected: not optional
2006-12-08 Triumph of the eggheads
2006-12-04 Personal tips on standing up to bigots
2006-11-20 Simmering in shame for our environmental policies
2006-11-06 The torture of waterboarding, then and now
2006-10-23 Caught Red®-handed
2006-10-06 Pay attention, feminists
2006-09-23 Atheists don’t get it
2006-09-08 The memo from hell
2006-08-24 Dogville
2006-08-10 Exile people who talk bollocks
2006-07-28 How power turns good men into bad boys
2006-07-14 Battered and bleeding - the joy of owning a home
2006-06-30 Attack on feminism hurts women here and overseas
2006-06-16 Are you Canadian or Canadian-born?
 
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