The Comment Channel
Leading article: A fudge is better than nothing

The Prime Minister is practised at dressing up pragmatic compromise in the garb of principle. But not even he could quite finesse the hugely complex product of 25-sided haggling yesterday as a coherent European Union budget for the future
Leading article: Amid Iraq's carnage, some hope

Those who disagreed with the invasion of Iraq should be the first to welcome a momentous week in the history of that country
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John Rentoul: Hague is doing impressions of Churchill. What happened to the Tories' new look?
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Editor-At-Large: Christians awake (but does that include the censors and bullies?)
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Joan Smith: My friend in the dock and why his show trial is shaming Turkey
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Alan Watkins: The monstrous treatment of Mr Kennedy and the curious role of Menzies Campbell