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...system to affect the mental functioning or emotional state. On the face of it, this definition would apply to widely used substances such as nicotine, caffeine and alcohol, but Schedule 1 of the Act makes it clear that the prohibition doesn’t apply to these widely consumed substances. Will it work? US President Nixon declared a war on drugs in 1971 but it is clear that...

...systems which sought to control women, the programme itself silences them. In the third episode for example, Foreman details the oppressive argument of King James I’s Demonology, which underpinned the witch hunts of the 17th century, 80% of whose victims were women. She does not mention, however, the trials where defendants, complainants and witnesses gave depositions....

...think we should be quite stirred by his dignity and determination. On the other hand he is far lower than the three establishment figures on the rostrum and seems to be pleading with them. We have a full view of their contemptuous faces, the officer, the teacher in his academic robes, the bloated industrialist, they are probably all serving in the house of Commons or the...