The Comment Channel
Leading article: Technology - the autocrat's worst enemy

It is natural for us to recoil at the sight of Western commercial interests submitting to the totalitarian whims of the Chinese government. And Google's agreement to censor its new Chinese website appears, at first, to be yet another example of a Western company putting profit before principle
Leading article: So much for a national health service

Cancer is the most feared affliction in Britain, and has now overtaken heart disease as the country's biggest killer. It is odd, then, that standards of care received by cancer sufferers in Britain are so low
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Steve Richards: The Lib Dems' problems have shown again that only two-party politics matter in Britain
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Janet Street-Porter: Van drivers get a better deal than rail users
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Deborah Orr: Politicians simply do not understand the soul-destroying truth about life on benefits
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Mark Steel: New image, same old party