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Safe and boring – but new EU line-up does the job
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Leading article: With Van Rompuy and Ashton, Europe passes its first post-Lisbon test
Leading article: Spirit on the water
Saturday, 21 November 2009
The Environment Agency has called it a "once in a thousand year" flood. And the impact of this week's unprecedentedly heavy rainfall in Cumbria has certainly been severe. Scores of people have had to be evacuated from their inundated homes. More than a thousand have been left without electricity or hot water. A policeman was killed after being swept away when a bridge collapsed.
Leading article: The Afghan strategy is finally beginning to shift
Friday, 20 November 2009
The West is looking to create the conditions that will allow withdrawal
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.
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• Brian Viner: Sorry, Roy, but Ireland played like superstars
It would be nice if Roy Keane could show some generosity of spirit.
• Christina Patterson: What we learn from the Sikh in the BNP
For ethnic harmony, you can go the route of a Tito or a Saddam Hussein.
• Andrew Grice: Blair beaten, but a coup for PM nonetheless
Mr Blair would have loved to become a powerful figurehead for Europe.
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