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Seven things no-one tells you when you start cycling to work

Fed up with the train to work, or the endless traffic on the way in? Think cycling is too risky, tiring or difficult to be an option? So did I before I started. And as it's Cycle to Work day today, I thought I'd share seven important lessons I learned on the road...

Is this chimpanzee a non-human person?

Once only some people had rights (eg not children, women or slaves). Over the centuries this has spread, but why stop at humans, when there are animals that demonstrate intelligence, emotions and self-awareness?

Crime writers are perfectly capable of becoming criminals

Tim Watson-Munro first went to prison when he was 25 – as a prison psychologist. Two decades later he was booted out of the profession for drug offences. In his new book, ‘Dancing with Demons’, he explains that really there is no such thing as the criminal mind any more than there are criminal classes: there is the potential for criminality in every single one of us

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