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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

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.

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.

Leader: The coalition isn’t working for the jobless

  • 17 February 2011
  • 6 comments

The government's complacent approach risks creating another lost generation.

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.

Leader: A taxing problem, alternative thinking required

  • 03 February 2011
  • 5 comments

The coalition's neglect of the "squeezed middle" presents opportunities for Labour.

Leader: The new Arab revolt

  • 03 February 2011

Even the repugnant autocrats of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are worried.

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".

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.

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.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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