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Hamish McRae: Free trade is not just about goods. It is also about money, services - and people Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 14 December 2005

Freer labour markets will be a way of increasing global wealth, just as freer trade has been

Deborah Ross: Our Woman in Crouch End Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 14 December 2005

If you want me, I'm Lot 32, under Alexei Sayle and on top of Graeme Le Saux: so bid, bid, bid

Deborah Orr: A damning verdict on our society Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 14 December 2005

The ugliest assumption is that the lives of the disabled are not as precious as the lives of others

Brian Viner: Country Life Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 14 December 2005

If you were to draw a near-equilateral triangle with Hereford, Ludlow and Worcester at each point - and I'm sure you can think of hardly anything better to do with your time - then we live almost splat-bang in the middle. The significance of this is that they all have racecourses. Indeed, Ludlow has the added distinction of being one of only four courses in England that shares no letters with the word "race", the others being Goodwood, Huntingdon and Plumpton.

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 13 December 2005

Unreadable, forgotten and downright bad? Perfect material for a Hollywood blockbuster

John Rentoul: Our green lobby prefers selfish gestures and cheap posturing over political engagement Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 13 December 2005

For all the difference it will make to climate change, Greenpeace might as well urge you to upgrade to a 4X4

Andreas Whittam Smith: Our peaceful acts of protest should not be a crime Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 December 2005

This is an undemocratic and inefficient way of bringing in new legislation

John Rentoul: Dave? Terrific. (But he doesn't have a chance) Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 December 2005

No matter how good he may prove, Cameron has an impossible task

Rowan Pelling: Don't go on about religion. Just decide, do you believe in fairies or not? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 December 2005

The debate about Narnia completely misses the point, as any seven-year-old could tell you

Editor-At-Large: Back in the closet, George. We only want your songs Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 December 2005

I can't think why a 42-year-old man has to tell us all about his sex life. Really, are we that interested? I've always had a soft spot for George Michael - he's such a control freak it's fascinating. This is the man who swore his private life would remain private, and now he's given three major interviews to the national press in the space of a week, in order to promote a new film about his life.

Joan Smith: Pulling out my toenails doesn't persuade me to tell the truth Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 December 2005

He'd say anything after his relatives were tortured in front of him

Alan Watkins: Mr Cameron's defect is that he's too jolly pleased with himself Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 December 2005

He is liable to make promises which turn out to be awkward

Deborah Orr: Want to see rude, nasty people? Watch the British upper classes in action Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 December 2005

My goodness, the similarities between Blair and Cameron really are uncanny. Blair, for example, has spent many years in power talking about radical change but preferring to shelve such eventualities by commissioning lengthy reports on What Need to Be Done instead. Now Cameron's at it. Instead of letting his adoring public in on the little secret that is "What I Plan to Do to You", he has already commissioned six new sets of policy studies, the first among them undertaken by the Social Justice Policy group.

Will Self: PsychoGeography #111 Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 December 2005

All about my mother

Steve Richards: David Cameron should not be deceived by all the applause. There is trouble ahead Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 December 2005

The struggles with his party's instincts, and sometimes his own, should be liberating for the timid Government

Thomas Sutcliffe: Don't let amenity go down the pan Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 December 2005

I found myself thinking about the word "amenity" the other day - and mildly regretting its recent fall from grace. I may be alone in this but its employment as a lavatorial euphemism ("Would you care to use the amenities?") seems to me to have left it with a faint whiff of disinfectant block and corporation functionalism.

Janet Street-Porter: We won't be happy until Gazza is dead Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 December 2005

Surely the kind way to treat Paul Gascoigne would be to leave him in peace

Mark Steel: Heroes and monsters of history Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 December 2005

Most modern opinon insists everyone is labelled either a baddie or a goodie

Deborah Ross: Our woman in Crouch End Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 December 2005

Answer me this: Why are quick-ticket machines slow and fluff always grey?

Deborah Orr: Jailed in the name of equal opportunities Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 December 2005

Brenda Hale, the first of Britain's female law lords, did Frank Longford proud on Monday. Speaking at the memorial prize-giving dedicated to his name, she lectured on "the Sinners and the Sinned Against: Women in the Criminal Justice System". In doing so she focused on one of the most visible problems in our highly problematic justice system: the mounting number of women in prison, the mounting degree of suffering of women in prison, and the comparative underlying stability of the statistics about women and crime, that make this leap in numbers quite certainly due to nothing other than more punitive attitudes.

Steve Richards: David Cameron is ready for opposition, but is he able to prepare his party for power? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 December 2005

The Conservative Party has voted for a venture into the unknowable led by the unknown. David Cameron's recent ubiquity obscures how little the new leader has revealed about his future intentions. With a Blairite flourish, he says he wants his party to change. The scale of his victory suggests that his party is willing to change. What is far from clear is what form the change will take.

Hamish McRae: Gradually Miss Prudence becomes Mr Spend-a-lot Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 December 2005

Despite having less revenue than he expected, Mr Brown has kept at a pre-set rate

Steve Richards: A new era signals that the battle to win the next election is already underway Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 December 2005

The last election was held only last May, but already it seems like a distant historic event. The outlines of the next one are visible and suddenly the future seems to matter more. Michael Howard retires today. Tony Blair will be gone at some point before the next election. Almost certainly, Gordon Brown will be Prime Minister. Unlike previous pre-budget reports yesterday's exchanges had little to reveal about economic policy, but in political terms they were highly charged and revelatory.

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 December 2005

When it comes to moving my world, Murphy the road mender ranks above the Queen

Andreas Whittam-Smith: A tale of scandalously poor judgement Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 05 December 2005

If Vanni Treves were chairman of a publicly listed company, he would be unlikely to survive
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