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David Cesarani: Justice will not be served by this trial, even if he is found guilty
What court with an ounce of humanity would send an ailing nonagenarian to jail?
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Katherine Butler: Iran has rarely been less likely to do favours for Western powers
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
David Miliband sounded positive as he expressed the hope last night that the detention of a yachtload of British sailors by Iran would be "resolved swiftly". The families of the hapless yachtsmen will have to pray the Foreign Secretary's words are based on more than wishful thinking. Because Iran has rarely been in less of a mood to do favours for any Western power, let alone Britain, the country which arouses most suspicion in the minds of its leaders.
Dominic Lawson: The feeble thinking that would keep Cadbury British
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Britain has gained more than it has lost by being open to foreign capital investment
Mary Dejevsky: Iraq exploded the special relationship
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Tony Blair will not be the only, or even the greatest, victim of the Chilcot inquiry
Michael Brown: Tory toffs and the return of class warfare
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
My supposed asset of working-class authenticity did little to help me win
Obama must explain how he'll get them out
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Rupert Cornwell: Sympathetic commentators are turning against the President over Afghanistan.
John Curtice: Now Cameron has reason to worry
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Despite all Labour's travails, there have always been doubts about the strength of the Conservatives' electoral prospects. It has never been clear that the party had "sealed the deal" with the electorate.
Virginia Ironside: Being sent away to live with boys is no preparation for adult life
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
To any woman who's been involved with a man who had the misfortune to be sent away to public school, Professor Leonard's research will come as no surprise. Because we can assume that, since there aren't that many all-boy day schools, and that most boarding schools are private, the men in question are those creatures who have been sent away from home far, far, too young for there not to be some sort of damaging impact on their mental health.
Michael McCarthy: Will history see this as a turning point for climate change?
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Nature Notebook: The task ahead is colossal, but something has changed
Simon Carr: I thought that inquiries were meant to enquire
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
The Sketch: Maybe it was ungentlemanly to quiz about something that had been dishonourably acquired
Lucy Hodges: The perils of single-sex education
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
My daughter would have been better off at a school with some boys
Columnist Comments
• Mary Dejevsky: Iraq exploded the special relationship
Tony Blair will not be the only, or even the greatest, victim of the Chilcot inquiry
• Dominic Lawson: Why exactly should Cadbury stay British?
Britain has gained not lost by being open to foreign capital investment
• Rupert Cornwell: Obama must explain how he'll get them out
The President is accused of being too ruthless – or not tough enough
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