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Leader: Killed in the name of crooked Karzai

  • 05 November 2009

The tawdry spectacle of Karzai's "re-election" should shame western leaders

Leader: Electoral change – glimmers of hope?

  • 05 November 2009

Electoral reform remains the key to unlocking democracy in this country

Leader: George Osborne: what is your plan B?

  • 29 October 2009
  • 1 comment

The complacency of the political classes may yet send Britain into the depression we have so far avoided

Leader: Why Britain must abort mission in Afghanistan

  • 22 October 2009
  • 1 comment

There are no good options left for Britain in Afghanistan. Brown should set a date for withdrawal

Leader: The Tories’ peculiar bedfellows in Europe

  • 15 October 2009

This Eurosceptic alliance is a product of moral and intellectual laziness

Leader: The Tories must walk progressive if they want to talk progressive

  • 08 October 2009
  • 2 comments

There is an alarming disconnect between the Conservatives' rhetoric and their policies

Leader: Brown fights on to the last

  • 01 October 2009

At conference, Brown was like a great warrior-king who knew that the end was near

Leader: Labour must seize this opportunity for change

  • 24 September 2009

If the party does not make the most of this progressive moment it will drift to ignominious defeat

Leader: Labour must change to survive

  • 17 September 2009
  • 3 comments

The Labour government remains a superior option to the Tories but it needs credible policies to meet the huge challenges of the world

Leader: A very long engagement . . .

  • 17 September 2009

The New Statesman supported me when I was being battered from pillar to post by the tabloid press

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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