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Desire: People protest outside Thailand’s ministry of digital economy and society after it banned the adult website, Pornhub, at the end of last year. The site recorded 33.5 billion visitors in 2018. (Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

Exploitation rules global porn industry

Porn stars and sex workers are badly treated — they should be protected by the law

Andile Zulu

If the state of the nation irks you, ask yourself: What must I do to make my environment better? (Reuters/Radu Sigheti)

Covid-19 exposes how unfree we all still are

We need to be free from gross inequalities and have a responsibility to change this through compassion, justice and sacrifice

Nico Koopman

Postmodern spectacle

Michael Jackson and his trial hold a mirror to modern Western civilisation and its blurring of fact and fiction, writes Terry Eagleton.

Terry Eagleton