The Comment Channel
Leading article: A major assault on our freedom

It is 15 February 2003. One million people or more are pouring on to the streets of London in a last effort to avert the imminent invasion of Iraq. The Prime Minister is addressing the Labour Party's spring conference in Glasgow. Alluding to the huge protest, Mr Blair said this: "I rejoice that we live in a country where peaceful protest is a natural part of our democratic process."
Leading article: From blue to green

David Cameron's passionate espousal of the environmental cause may strike some as opportunistic. But whatever his motivation - and it is an issue which he been promoting for some time - it can only be for the good that the Conservative Party is now developing its own ideas on the subject.