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Leading article: The Afghan strategy is finally beginning to shift

The West is looking to create the conditions that will allow withdrawal

Recent Leading Articles

Leading article: A technological answer to cheating

Friday, 20 November 2009

Irish and English football fans find themselves united in sporting disgruntlement. In 1986 England were eliminated from the Mexico World Cup with the help of an outrageous Diego Maradona handball. And this week the Republic of Ireland were bundled out of their World Cup qualification play-off against France in Paris when the French striker, Thierry Henry, controlled the ball with his palm to set up a French winner. The "hand of god" has been succeeded by the "main de dieu" in the pantheon of sporting injustice.

Leading article: Bad taste

Friday, 20 November 2009

"I Think women are really good at multi- tasking", says Kate Moss in an interview with the fashion news website WWD. Very true. But, sadly, Ms Moss does not seem to have mastered the art herself. For later in the same interview she manages to use her mouth, but not her brain.

Leading article: A Queen's Speech that could be more than electioneering

Thursday, 19 November 2009

There is still life in this Parliament, if all parties can agree to work

Leading article: Genetically modified food for thought

Thursday, 19 November 2009

The prospect of a hungry century looms. On our present course, we are caught in a pincer. Climate change is likely to turn much farmland around the globe into desert. And the growth of the global population will increase demand for food. Yields will fall and prices will rise. That is a recipe for starvation.

Leading article: Level playing fields

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Has the class war been won without a shot being fired? It's almost tempting to believe so on hearing the news that Eton College will allow pupils from the local state school to use its cricket pitches and rowing lake.

Leading article: A climate change warning we ignore at our peril

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Alarming new temperature forecasts show the need for urgent action

Leading article: Elderly care must become a priority

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

The Alzheimer's Society yesterday published an indictment of the care of patients with dementia in the NHS.

Leading article: Frontier town

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

So Swindon is Britain's most progressive town, or at least its most "wired" one, for it is the first in Britain to offer free high-speed wireless access for all its residents.

The Army will benefit from this scrutiny

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Leading article: The Government deserves credit for ordering the public inquiry into the death of Mr Mousa, especially after the Army failed to bring those responsible for his death to justice.

Leading article: Mr Obama's Chinese diplomacy

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

President Obama's talks in China offer a precious opportunity to strengthen and recalibrate the world's most important bilateral relationship. Few dramatic public breakthroughs are likely as a result of his visit; his public urgings at his town hall-style meeting with students in Shanghai on human rights are unlikely to be any more successful than similar appeals by his predecessors in improving Beijing's dismal record in this field. But in his private session with President Hu Jintao, the stakes could hardly be higher.