12 January 2004

A really bad case of penis envy

By John Carlin

Spain was also a leading part of the war coalition. But to the chagrin of its writers, it has had no Hutton

Ministers want to lock up people for being bad, before they have even committed a crime. It is internment by any other name

By Nick Cohen

Perverts, psychos, villains and terrorists: since the state knows all about them, shouldn't it put them away before they can do any harm? That's the current philosophy and, Nick Cohen argues, it threatens an unacceptable sacrifice of freedom for safety

The nutcracker generation

By Michael Durham

Once, grandparents helped with the babysitting. Now, they are just another unwelcome demand on mums and dads struggling with careers and children

We want a doctor who knows best

By Theodore Dalrymple

In the NHS, choice is good, the government tells us. Most patients disagree, writes Theodore Dalrymple

The truth about ''health tourists''

By Andrew Simms

The idea of Britain as an innocent, being taken for a ride by ruthless visitors, is absurd. We were once the biggest source of economic refugees

Where children come cheap

By P J White

Our wrap-'em-in-cotton-wool approach to the young stops at the workplace. Millions of under-16s have jobs, yet accidents and exploitation go unchecked. P J White reports

Darcus Howe on the price of being ill in Trinidad

By Darcus Howe

My sister gets expelled from the emergency ward because she can't pay on the spot

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