WW archive > Issue 1044 - 05 February 2015
What can chimpanzees teach us about human nature?
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group explores the relationship between sex, language and culture
Letters
Fools; Monoglots; Wandering who?; Wrong; Socialism on trial; Sceptics; A T-shirt away; Traumatic cuts; Alien oil
A well-ordered militia
The Greens are under attack because of their ‘insane’ attitude towards the army. Meanwhile, observes Jack Conrad, the left continues its cowardly silence
Expel the Blairite traitors
Eddie Ford says Milburn and Hutton are doing their best to discredit Ed Miliband’s NHS plans. They are acting as Tory agents
In mortal danger
At the end of the miners strike in 1984-85 the question became whether it was possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Renzi in command
There is no doubting who the main loser is following the election of the new president, reports Toby Abse
A game of chicken
Who will blink first - Alexis Tsipras or Angela Merkel? Possibly neither, worries Paul Demarty
Oppression and western values
Democracy comes from below, not above, says Peter Manson
Up the pace
You're getting better, but Robbie Rix is a hard man to keep happy