Commentators

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?

Inside Commentators

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.