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Leader: Have we learned nothing from the economic catastrophe of 12 months ago?

  • 10 September 2009
  • 2 comments

Without a proper reassessment of the role of finance in our economy, the crash could easily happen again

Leader: In Afghanistan, political success remains as elusive as military triumph

  • 03 September 2009
  • 1 comment

The leaders of the coalition are now ignoring allegations of fraud and corruption that they have not tolerated elsewhere

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

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

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

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

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.

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".

Trust the filly to go bonkers

  • 06 August 2009

Economics research is on the side of the "literally bonkers" Harriet Harman

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.

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The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

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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