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LEADING ARTICLES
Leading article: The road to destruction

It is as if we were living on two planets. Here, in the real world, the evidence that global warming is already doing immense damage to the earth is mounting with terrifying speed
Leading article: Keep torturers out of UK airspace

Nothing destroyed the moral case for the US war in Vietnam quite so effectively as the complicity of American forces in the use of torture
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John Rentoul: What kind of prime minister will the new Tory leader face in his deep-end baptism?
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Rowan Pelling: So poets and artists have more sex. Tell me something I didn't know...
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Editor-At-Large: Christmas shopping? I'd rather be in the jungle with Carol
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Joan Smith: Who cares if Eminem is an artist? He's an insult to women
- Chris Mullin: America must tell us the truth about its gulag
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Marina Cantacuzino: Forgiving: the ultimate revenge
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Jeremy Laurance: How smoking takes its toll on the young
- Charles Kennedy: Prime Minister has squandered chance to push green agenda
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A C Grayling: The French surgeons have performed an act of liberation