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Leading article: The crucial questions that the Iraq inquiry must answer

Sir John Chilcot must assert his independence and focus on the key issues

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Leading article: A strange business

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

It is not often that you get the leaders of all three main political parties addressing a CBI national conference. Still more unusual is the sight of all three leaders of the m ain parties addressing the Conference on the same day. That is a sure sign that an election is in the offing. It's also a tribute to the fact that, at a time of continuing recession, each of the parties want to look as if the issues of unemployment, growth and private sector investment are uppermost in their minds. As indeed they should be.

Leading article: Let it all out

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

All is quiet across the fertile office plains. Workers sup at the water cooler. Others graze at their keyboards. Then suddenly a piercing shriek breaks the tranquility, causing the wildlife to raise their heads in surprise. What's going on? Someone's shouting at the boss. Don't they know that this is no time to get on the wrong side of management? Do they have a death wish? Well it seems the shouters are the sensible ones. Swedish researchers have discovered that getting angry with your boss can be good for your heart.

Leading article: More must be done to nurture those in higher education

Monday, 23 November 2009

There are lessons to learn from the university drop-out rate

Leading article: A dilemma for the Commonwealth

Monday, 23 November 2009

For most Britons, the Commonwealth is little more than an historical curiosity. We forget that many countries in the developing world take their membership seriously, and that the number of would-be members continues to grow. The annual summit of heads of government that opens this week in Trinidad and Tobago, for example, is expected to judge the application from Rwanda. In one sense, it is a compliment to the Commonwealth that this ex-Belgian colony, historically very much part of francophone Africa, is seeking to join.

Leading article: The Dome's decade

Monday, 23 November 2009

More than a quarter of a million people will this week watch eight top tennis players at the ATP World Tour Finals at the 02 Arena in London. Few of them are likely to pay much attention to the fact they are sitting in what once was known as the Millennium Dome.

Leading article: Next stop, Copenhagen

Sunday, 22 November 2009

It was, of course, the IoS wot won it. Our "No, non, nein" campaign against Tony Blair ensured that he was not chosen as the first President of the European Council last week.

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

The heavy hand of Rome

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Leading article: The Pope has undermined the Archbishop's authority in the midst of a struggle for the very future of Anglicanism.

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.