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Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People by Charlie Campbell – review
25 Sep 2011:Charlie Campbell's panoramic survey of humanity's tendency to blame others wins over Christopher Bray
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Editors' picks
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Now that our decline is real, will the English working class embrace a notion of collective responsibility, wonders Scottish novelist Andrew O'Hagan -
Why have we become so suspicious of kindness, one of our most basic - and pleasurable - human qualities, ask Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
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