Tuesday, 2 November 2010
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Leading article: President Obama still offers change we can believe inTuesday, 2 November 2010
But if Americans believe responsibility for their national ills can all be laid at the door of their President, they are deluding themselves. There have indeed been mistakes from the Obama White House, mainly over the economy. Mr Obama's gravest erro...
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Dominic Lawson: Security is one thing, bullying anotherTuesday, 2 November 2010
Despite the fact that the booby-trapped cartridges were addressed to two synagogues in Chicago, David Cameron declared that the intention was for the explosive devices to be set off while in mid-air, allowing the more excitable newspapers to declare ...
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Leading article: A modest start that could mark a historic European shiftWednesday, 3 November 2010
Not, of course, that this is how the British-French agreements were presented yesterday. There was no hint that they might in time form the genesis of a European defence policy – though this should not be ruled out – they were seen rather as a bilate...
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Leading article: A welcome injection of scienceTuesday, 2 November 2010
This is an important contribution to the debate. The results suggest that, as a society, our efforts are in the wrong areas. What is needed is exactly what Dr Nutt has set out to provide: independent thinking based on scientific criteria. That sugges...
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Is anybody out there – with a soul?Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Last week a team of US scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, reported in the journal Science that nearly one in four stars like the Sun could have Earth-sized planets capable of supporting alien life. And last month the UN made a li...
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Letters: Poppy AppealWednesday, 3 November 2010
The Poppy Appeal is once again subverting Armistice Day. A day that should be about peace and remembrance is turned into a month-long drum roll of support for current wars. This year's campaign has been launched with showbiz hype. The true horror a...
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Susie Rushton: Ms Grigson's recipe for female liberationWednesday, 3 November 2010
I know this because every time I switch on the TV a pair of smug presenters is ironically growing their own cabbages or unironically pickling a pumpkin whole. When they're not on the allotment, telly gourmands are in the studio-kitchen swooning over ...
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Leading article: The case for democracy behind barsWednesday, 3 November 2010
A backlash from the populist press, the perennial cheerleader for Britain's punitive culture, is inevitable. Right wing Conservative backbenchers are also likely to create a fuss. And the verbal attacks on the Strasbourg-based ECHR have already begun...
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Letters: DrugsTuesday, 2 November 2010
Mary Ann Sieghart's persuasive argument under the headline: "Restore sanity in the debate on drugs" (1 November) is unlikely to cut much ice with the British government. Nor, I fear, will the article in The Lancet co-authored by former chief advise...
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Leading article: Turbulent watersTuesday, 2 November 2010
For all their talk about liberté, the French are a pretty tightly-regulated bunch. They banned swims starting from their side 17 years ago. Now they want to stop our swimmers from landing sur leur plage. There has been a dramatic increase in the numb...
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Larry J Sabato: This is what happens when you over-promise and under-deliverTuesday, 2 November 2010
Voters are on the verge of building in yet another check on Tuesday. Unless virtually every poll and pundit is wrong, the Republicans will score a substantial victory over President Obama's Democrats. The Grand Old Party (GOP) is expected to take the...
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Tom Peck: Yet another triumph for the place they call 'the Nobel Prize factory'Tuesday, 2 November 2010
The lab, which last year received its 14th Nobel award, traces its roots back to the discovery in 1953 of the DNA double helix by Francis Crick and Jim Watson, two of its previous prize winners. The laboratory was at the forefront of the 1950s and 19...
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Julie Bradshaw: It needs to be controlled, but it's still a great challengeTuesday, 2 November 2010
It's such a hard stretch of water that changes from one day to the next. When I was 15 I lived in Blackpool and we were travelling up and down to Dover all the time before we made the first attempt. Even then I was given a 50-50 chance. The tide chan...
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Leading article: Snow driftWednesday, 3 November 2010
But Walt Disney's vision was not without its horrors, as anyone who remembers the Pleasure Island scenes from Pinocchio will attest. And never mind the Emperor of Exmoor, there are some adults who are still trying to recover from the death of Bambi's...
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Mark Hughes: Another scandal facing firearms unit tarnished by Menezes deathWednesday, 3 November 2010
During the De Menezes inquest, officers were portrayed as men who had decided to kill the Brazilian before even entering the London Underground station and were later described as "trigger-happy" by Boris Johnson. In the Saunders inquest, the officer...
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Deborah Ross: Please will you buy my novelty book?Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Hello? Duh? Am I the only one who sees this, again? Sometimes, I seriously believe that I am the only right-thinking person on the planet, which is fair enough, although it does get lonely sometimes. I refer, in particular, to the Annual Right-Thinki...
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Deborah Ross: Let me count the ways to wear a cape...Tuesday, 2 November 2010
As an outer garment which should, by definition, garment your outer, how can it be fit for purpose when so much of it is absent? Would you buy socks without heels? Bras without cups? Have you ever seen a feature on "six ways to wear crotch-free trous...
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