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Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle in American Sniper; a mourner after the Paris terrorist attacks; Nadiya Hussain, winner of the Great British Bake Off.
Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle in American Sniper; a mourner after the Paris terrorist attacks; Nadiya Hussain, winner of the Great British Bake Off. Composite: AP/Getty Images/PA
Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle in American Sniper; a mourner after the Paris terrorist attacks; Nadiya Hussain, winner of the Great British Bake Off. Composite: AP/Getty Images/PA

The 60 most-read Opinion pieces of 2015

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Here’s our digest of the year’s biggest Opinion pieces – including four that were originally published in previous years. In order …

1. Someone stole naked pictures of me. This is what I did about it, by Emma Holten

2. The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero?, by Lindy West

3. Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq, by Seumas Milne

4. Indonesia is burning. So why is the world looking away?, by George Monbiot

5. I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes, by Nicolas Hénin

6. Don’t rush to Nepal to help. Read this first, by Claire Bennett

7. Stephen Fry’s engagement: what’s wrong with age-gap relationships?, by Hannah Jane Parkinson

8. Steve Bell on the Charlie Hebdo attack

9. Britain’s criminally stupid attitudes to race and immigration are beyond parody, by Frankie Boyle

10. Mindless terrorists? The truth about Isis is much worse, by Scott Atran

11. Dear Katie Hopkins. Stop making life harder for disabled people, by Lucy Hawking

12. A picture of loneliness: you are looking at the last male northern white rhino, by Jonathan Jones

A northern white rhinoceros protected by armed guards in Kenya’s Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Photograph: Georgina Goodwin/Barcroft Media

13. David Cameron hasn’t the faintest idea how deep his cuts go. This letter proves it, by George Monbiot

14. What do doctors say to ‘alternative therapists’ when a patient dies? Nothing. We never talk, by Ranjana Srivastava

15. Aspirational parents condemn their children to a desperate, joyless life, by George Monbiot

16. If you don’t understand how people fall into poverty, you’re probably a sociopath, by Lucy Mangan

17. If your idea of hell is sitting next to Kate Moss on an easyJet flight, you must be dead inside, Suzanne Moore

18. Prisons that withhold menstrual pads humiliate women and violate basic rights, by Chandra Bozelko

19. My boyfriend ‘sort-of’ raped me. But I didn’t break up with him, by Monica Tan

20. The ‘Dear Fat People’ video is tired, cruel and lazy – but I still fight for the woman who made it, by Lindy West

21. How not to talk to someone with depression, by SE Smith

22. Sonny Bill Williams’s thoughtless act of generosity has ruined sport for ever, by Stuart Heritage

All Blacks player Sonny Bill Williams gave his Rugby World Cup gold medal to New Zealand fan Charlie Line. Photograph: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA

23. The thoroughly humiliating and extremely satisfying demise of Tony Abbott, by First Dog on the Moon

24. Germany won’t spare Greek pain – it has an interest in breaking us, by Yanis Varoufakis

25. Is women’s visible pubic hair really so shocking that it must be censored?, by Jessica Valenti

26. What is love? Five theories on the greatest emotion of all, by a panel of writers

27. How do you know your cat loves you? Let me count 25 ways, by Fay Schopen

28. Testino’s portrait of William and Kate is a sickly sweet lie, by Jonathan Jones

29. Apocalypse now: has the next giant financial crash already begun?, by Paul Mason

30. The view from Middle England: ‘If the Scottish get in with Labour ... we’re done for’, video by John Harris

31. What if David Cameron is an evil genius?, by Frankie Boyle

32. Greece and Spain helped postwar Germany recover. Spot the difference, by Nick Dearden

33. Social media is protecting men from periods, breast milk and body hair, by Jessica Valenti

34. Jeremy Corbyn a non-conformist? He couldn’t be more British if he bled tea, by Frankie Boyle

35. It’s not always easy to be a Joni Mitchell fan, but her illness devastates me, by Linda Grant

36. J’ai été otage de l’État islamique. Daesh craint plus notre unité que nos frappes aériennes, by Nicolas Hénin

37. Don’t let the maverick act fool you – Jeremy Clarkson’s the ultimate insider, by Hadley Freeman

38. I loved the honesty of Tinder – then I met Mr No Sex Before Marriage, Desiree Akhavan

39. The most dangerous drug isn’t meow meow. It isn’t even alcohol ... by Charlie Brooker

40. When I lost my hands making flatscreens I can’t afford, nobody would help me, by Rosa Moreno

41. Pubic hair has a job to do – stop shaving and leave it alone, Emily Gibson

42. Britain is heading for another 2008 crash: here’s why, by David Graeber

43. If you laughed when 50 Cent went bankrupt, you don’t understand hip-hop, by Andrew Emery

Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex Features

44. There may be flowing water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth?, by George Monbiot

45. Sia’s video: let’s be wary of seeing paedophilia everywhere, Barbara Ellen

46. Depression doesn’t make you sad all the time, by SE Smith

47. Colleen McCullough: we’ll celebrate a woman for anything, as long as it’s not her talent, by Rebecca Shaw

48. Even if you hate me, please don’t take Labour over the cliff edge, by Tony Blair

49. A&E helped us through a miscarriage. Then we got a feedback text, by Anonymous

50. Young women, give up the vocal fry and reclaim your strong female voice, by Naomi Wolf

51. This black woman’s anti-Muslim rant shows how deep British racism goes, by Joseph Harker

52. Nadiya Hussain has won so much more than the Great British Bake Off, by Remona Aly

53. How a corporate cult captures and destroys our best graduates, by George Monbiot

54. I’m tired of being kind to creepy men in order to stay safe, by Daisy Buchanan

55. Don’t blame depression for the Germanwings tragedy, by Masuma Rahim

56. Angela Merkel has a red and a yellow button. One ends the crisis. Which does she push?, by Yanis Varoufakis

Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

57. This week I may be jailed for writing a book on human rights abuses, by Rafael Marques de Morais

58. You’ve been asked to have your say on the NHS. You just don’t know about it, by Ann Robinson

59. A (very) rough guide to America from an Englishman in New York, by Paul Owen

60. Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it?, by David Graeber

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