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UK Politics
Leader: The melancholy and turmoil of the talented Mr Hague
- 11 March 2011
Hague should ask himself whether his undoubted talents could be better used elsewhere in government
Middle East
Leader: The west needs a grand plan to pay its debt to the Arab world
- 03 March 2011
- 36 comments
A multilateral fund should be deployed to support economic development and civil society.
Middle East
Leader: Support the people’s revolt and stop selling arms to tyrants
- 24 February 2011
- 4 comments
Cameron's support for reform was undermined by his defence of arms sales.
UK Politics
Leader: The coalition isn’t working for the jobless
- 17 February 2011
- 6 comments
The government's complacent approach risks creating another lost generation.
UK Politics
Leader: The “big society” is unworkable in the age of cuts
- 10 February 2011
- 7 comments
The speed and scale of the coalition's cuts threatens to strangle the big society at birth.
UK Politics
Leader: A taxing problem, alternative thinking required
- 03 February 2011
- 5 comments
The coalition's neglect of the "squeezed middle" presents opportunities for Labour.
International Politics
Leader: The new Arab revolt
- 03 February 2011
Even the repugnant autocrats of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are worried.
UK Politics
Leader: Plan A is failing, Mr Osborne. It’s time to change course
- 27 January 2011
- 8 comments
It is no longer acceptable for the government to dismiss its critics as "deficit deniers".
Health
Leader: The beginning of the end of the NHS
- 20 January 2011
- 9 comments
The coalition's reforms pave the way for the full-scale privatisation of the health service.
Politics
Leader: Too big to fail, the banks are now too powerful to constrain
- 13 January 2011
- 13 comments
Forced to choose between the interests of the banks and the interests of the public, the government has sided with the banks.
