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Politics
Leader: Beware the coming anarchy and Labour’s denial of it
- 27 August 2009
- 4 comments
Chris Grayling's speech showed that he understands the coarsening of our public culture
Politics
Leader: The Lion of the Senate . . .
- 27 August 2009
He reminded the world why the Kennedy family's tradition of public service was so cherished
UK Politics
Leader: Daniel Hannan’s opinions on our health service are completely in keeping with the Tory mainstream
- 20 August 2009
It is Labour - not the Conservatives - that is the party of the NHS. Ministers have found a chink in the Tories' armour
UK Politics
How “winnable” is Afghanistan?
- 20 August 2009
- 1 comment
The government has failed to define "victory". Ministers should set a date for withdrawal of British troops
International Politics
Our military presence in Afghanistan is part of the problem, not the solution
- 13 August 2009
- 2 comments
Britain should follow Canada's lead and set a date for withdrawal from Afghanistan. It is time we accepted that we are losing this war.
UK Politics
Our opposition to torture must be non-negotiable
- 06 August 2009
- 2 comments
A series of disturbing revelations suggests that collusion and complicity in torture may be the darkest legacy of Britain's involvement in the "war on terror".
UK Politics
Trust the filly to go bonkers
- 06 August 2009
Economics research is on the side of the "literally bonkers" Harriet Harman
UK Politics
Let this be the fifth – and final – inquiry into the Iraq catastrophe
- 30 July 2009
The Chilcot inquiry must lead a revolution in honesty and tell us how Britain and the US came to collaborate on the most spectacular foreign policy catastrophe in living memory.
Politics
Labour may be struggling but there is more intellectual energy on the left than for a generation
- 23 July 2009
- 5 comments
There are signs that the centre left is slowly emerging from the intellectual deep freeze in which it has been suspended for so long
Asia
Make no mistake, this imperial war in Afghanistan cannot be won
- 16 July 2009
We warned in 2001 that this conflict could put Britain and the US on the wrong side of the moral argument. There is no military solution to the conflict.
