Leading Articles

Leading article: A policy of calm remains the best course with Iran

Confrontation at this point would only suit the regime's hardliners

Recent Leading Articles

Leading article: Cameron's climate conundrum

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

In a way, the revolt in the Conservative Party against the conventional science of global warming redounds to David Cameron's credit. That so many prominent people in his party disagree with the leader's policy underlines his courage in defying the instincts of so many of his followers.

Leading article: Navigational error

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Just when you thought it was safe to go out into the side street or the country lane, a voice warns you "not so fast". News that spending on sat-navs in Britain fell by 12 per cent last year must have lifted the heart of every bystander caught by a Polish juggernaut trying a shortcut through a narrow residential street.

Leading article: A pragmatic response to the difficulties of Afghanistan

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Brown offers twin-track approach of more troops and an exit strategy

Leading article: A progressive challenge

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The Liberal Democrats' leader, Nick Clegg, argues that his party's tax policies are fairer and more radical than those proposed by his opponents. The package of measures unveiled yesterday suggests the claim has some justification. His proposals are overtly redistributive.

Leading article: The final trial

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

It would no doubt be fitting if the long decades of hunting down Nazi criminals were capped by a last, climactic trial in which a major perpetrator of the genocide against Jews was forced to face his victims and meet his just deserts.

Leading article: Left and Right square up for a battle over poverty

Monday, 30 November 2009

Closer targeting of benefits may not be the solution to inequality

Leading article: Terrorism returns to Russia

Monday, 30 November 2009

We have become all too grimly accustomed to the term "improvised explosive device" as used to kill foreign troops in transit in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in Russia? It is just such a bomb that the Russian authorities say blew up in the path of a packed Moscow-St Petersburg train, which killed 25 people and injured more than 100. Assuming – and there is no reason to doubt this – that initial reports of a bomb are confirmed, this is the first fatal act of terrorism in the heart of Russia for more than five years.

Leading article: A river ran through it

Monday, 30 November 2009

Deep down, we knew it all along, didn't we? The reason for Britain's love-hate relationship with Europe, and more particularly with France, is that we were originally part of the Continent and broke away. Once upon a time, when all was peace, harmony and entente, the Weald of Kent and Sussex merged effortlessly into the rolling hills of Artois. The roses of Picardy were as much ours as theirs.

Leading article: The seeds of hope

Sunday, 29 November 2009

The good people of Todmorden are living a modern version of the Good Life. As we report today, more of them are growing their own vegetables, keeping chickens and buying local produce than, well, a long time ago.