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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

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.

In defence of time-wasting . . .

  • 16 July 2009

Let's not condemn it-done well and shamelessly, it's almost an art form.

There can be no constitutional renewal while a monarch sits on the throne

  • 09 July 2009
  • 11 comments

At a time when the Westminster elite are being forced to discuss urgent constitutional reform, no one is discussing the powers and excess of the British monarchy

The scandal of our railways

  • 09 July 2009
  • 1 comment

Has there ever been any public policy decision as botched, chaotic and disastrous as the privatisation of the railways?

We hate to say it, but there is a third way

  • 02 July 2009
  • 3 comments

The left should show that it too, can be thrifty in straitened times. But that doesn't mean timidly accepting the smaller-state proposals of the Tories

Oil is still a dark stain on Iraq

  • 02 July 2009

Banking is too important to be left to greedy and reckless bankers

  • 25 June 2009
  • 7 comments

It is sickening to see our wretched bankers dusting themselves down with taxpayers' money. Labour has to act.

Maziar Bahari must be freed

  • 25 June 2009

We must allow the people of Iran to bring about the change they want to see

  • 18 June 2009

The Obama administration and the British government should be praised for the restraint they have shown

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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