Commentators
John Curtice: Blair has the good fortune to be defending a very poor record
Published: 26 April 2006
Many a commentator has suggested that heavy losses for Labour at next week's local elections could spell the end of Tony Blair's stay at 10 Downing Street. But Mr Blair's challenge is actually fairly easy.
The Big Question: 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster, what was its legacy?
Published: 26 April 2006
What actually happened at Chernobyl?
Raymond Snoddy: Rivals name price to save public service programming
Published: 26 April 2006
Yesterday was a momentous day for public service broadcasting in the UK as Channel 4 announced record profits and the BBC came out with bold plans for more and better programmes to engage a new generation.
Hugh Roberts: Single group appears to be targeting Sinai's resorts
Published: 26 April 2006
The latest bombing in Egypt's Sinai is as likely to add to the mystery surrounding bombings in Egypt as to resolve it.
Michael Brown: The future's orange (despite all that ridicule)
Published: 26 April 2006
The Third Leader: Getting exercised
Published: 26 April 2006
There are, I fear, some intellectually lazy, left-wing, liberal journalists of exactly the type condemned by Mr Clarke, the Home Secretary, who will seek to make some typically cheap points about the Prime Minister's latest initiative, the one urging the nation to take more exercise.
Simon Calder: 'Surrender our wanderlust and evil will win'
Published: 25 April 2006
As with Luxor, Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh, so with Dahab: the damage from yesterday's attack spreads far wider than the innocent victims and their families. This act of mass murder was, like the other massacres before it, aimed at wrecking the industry of human happiness that tourism should represent.
The Big Question: Why do the world's super-rich live in Britain - and do we want them here?
Published: 25 April 2006
How rich is rich nowadays?
Catherine Townsend: Sleeping around
Published: 25 April 2006
I'd steer clear of him, Cat," my friend Amy told me, referring to my sexy, 38-year-old admirer who's just gone through a messy divorce and has two kids. "He's got way too much baggage." Ironically, I got her voicemail on my way back from an evening out with Mr Perfect-on-Paper, the easy-going guy who my girlfriends love because he's the life of every party. Because he made me laugh at dinner and scream in bed, our idyllic six-week courtship seemed too good to be true. Until I asked him why, at age 40, he's never had, or wanted, a serious relationship.
The Third Leader: Ancestor worship
Published: 25 April 2006
Until reasonably recently, excitement in genealogical circles was mostly confined to matters of escutcheons, pendent drops, annulets and double quatrefoils, and expressed at most by an almost imperceptibly increased tempo in page turning by gimlet-eyed people hunched over cumbersome tomes and scrolls.
Charles Clarke: 'Ordinary people have the right to be protected'
Published: 24 April 2006
This is an edited version of a 14-page rebuttal by the Home Secretary of a piece by 'Independent' writer Simon Carr on 15 April
Patrick Cockburn: Washington should accept Iraq as a Shia state
Published: 24 April 2006
Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
Published: 24 April 2006
Charles Nevin: We few, we happy few, we band of losers
Published: 24 April 2006
Hard though it is to believe, summer will soon be upon us. Spring is already around somewhere, if evidenced only by the passing of St George's Day; which also reminds us, as the distant rumble turns into that often literally intoxicating mix of roaring hype and raw hope: the World Cup is coming.
Zac Goldsmith: Don't delete nukes from the menu
Published: 23 April 2006
Sarah Sands: Jack Bauer may die, but he never throws a sickie
Published: 23 April 2006
Chris Powell: Chameleon karma
Published: 23 April 2006
James C Moore: The President's magician has lost his magic. And the law is slowly closing in
Published: 23 April 2006
Bernard Hare: They sniff glue, steal cars... and write poetry
Published: 23 April 2006
Richard Ingrams' Week: Don't compensate victims of crime
Published: 22 April 2006
I have never been able to understand the justification for compensating victims of crime. Politicians seem happy to accept the principle that victims should be given a lump sum, but, from a purely personal point of view, I have not felt that if I were, say, hit over the head by a mugger on a dark night the state should be required to make amends with a large cheque.
Sue Arnold: God help you if you're elderly and sick
Published: 22 April 2006
Jad Adams: My loyalty to the party has reached breaking point
Published: 21 April 2006
The Third Leader: Bard-barney
Published: 21 April 2006
Alarums: we have another excursion into Shakespeare's "real identity". It involves one of the usual suspects, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, but rather more alarumingly than usual, argues, with the aid of our old friends, "the totality of the circumstantial evidence" and "the logic of the situation", that he was the secret love child of Elizabeth I.
Michael McCarthy: And now for David Cameron's next trick ...
Published: 20 April 2006
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