Leading Articles
Leading article: We must explore ways to bridge the social divide
Published: 15 June 2006
It comes as little surprise to learn that a majority of Britain's leading media figures were educated at private schools - and that this percentage has risen since a similar survey was carried out 20 years ago
Leading article: Less debate, more leadership
Published: 15 June 2006
In his first speech since taking over as Europe Minister, Geoff Hoon yesterday urged people to "think Europe" and said his aim is " to restart the debate in this country" over the future of the EU
Leading article: Anger, pain, and perils of raid that backfired
Published: 14 June 2006
Maybe, just maybe, the two distraught brothers were telling something other than the truth. Maybe, despite a house search so exhaustive that it demolished walls, evidence of a heinous crime in the planning will still be found
Leading article: The ship of state has no rudder
Published: 14 June 2006
The Germans managed it, eventually, last autumn. The Italians managed it this spring, and now even the Iraqis have just about managed it in the most unpropitious of circumstances
Leading article: A travesty of everything a democracy should be
Published: 13 June 2006
Sooner or later there were bound to be deaths at Guantanamo. The uncertainty, the isolation, the black despair that pervade this benighted prison camp on the tip of Cuba had already precipitated more than 40 suicide attempts.
Leading article: History lessons from Broadway
Published: 13 June 2006
To win one Tony theatrical award in New York might be regarded as a blessing, as the playwright Alan Bennett might say in homage to a great Irish predecessor. But to win six could be called a veritable snowstorm.
Leading article: This latest failure will shake faith in Sir Ian Blair
Published: 12 June 2006
The way The Metropolitan Police mishandled the Forest Gate case ought to prompt a rapid rethink about tactics if lasting damage is not to be done to police relations with Muslims who now make up at least 10 per cent of the capital's population.
Leading article: A move that may revive parents' fears
Published: 12 June 2006
One has to hope the General Medical Council knew what it was doing when it decided to bring charges against the doctor behind the boycott of the MMR vaccine.
Leading article: Sweat and tears
Published: 12 June 2006
Sven Goran Eriksson had a real failure of imagination when he explained away England's lacklustre performance against Paraguay in the World Cup as the consequence of heat.
Leading article: The NHS should explain
Published: 11 June 2006
Many breast cancer patients are delighted by the approval of Herceptin for NHS use. But the joy of this newspaper, which campaigned on their behalf, is bounded
Leading article: The police should explain
Published: 11 June 2006
The release without charge of the two brothers arrested in the raid on a house in Forest Gate has made the police and security services look foolish - or worse
Leading article: Divided by a common sport
Published: 11 June 2006
How was it for you, yesterday's game of two halves? No, we don't mean first half England, second half Paraguay. We mean the half of the country that watched and the half that didn't. The half that did belied the caricature of the England football fan. We know that In-ger-land Man is a semi-mythical beast: the white van, the beer, the inadequately suppressed rage. It is not only a grotesque, it is a grotesque distortion of reality. The truly typical fan is, in fact: middle class; tea-drinking (witness that National Grid surge at 3.53pm yesterday as a nation celebrated by ... switching on the kettle); quite likely to be female; recognises that it is only a game but enjoys being part of something that reaches across the entire nation, and even the Celtic fringe.
Leading article: Let this festival of football foster a spirit of global communality
Published: 10 June 2006
Leading article: A direct challenge to the road map
Published: 10 June 2006
Ehud Olmert is a man with a mission - that mission being to sell Israel's plan for unilateral withdrawal from parts, but not all, of the West Bank to as many foreign leaders in as short a time as possible.
Leading article: The badge of shame
Published: 10 June 2006
It takes the Latins to spoil our gloomy northern pleasures. At first sight, the French claim to come up with a hangover cure might seem a boon. On second thoughts this potion, Security Feel Better, could hardly be a worse idea.
Leading article: A welcome success - but the future remains bleak
Published: 09 June 2006
No one with the best interests of the Iraqi people at heart could possibly mourn the passing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Leading article: A bid for the higher ground
Published: 09 June 2006
Liberal Democrat policy chiefs seem to have identified two major areas where their party has an image problem: crime and tax
Leading article: A crisis with roots deep in the sands of Iraq
Published: 08 June 2006
The recruitment crisis in the British Army continues. It is estimated that 90 per cent of the Army's fighting units are under strength
Leading article: Pills are not enough
Published: 08 June 2006
It is brave of the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products to approve the prescription of Prozac for children as young as eight
Leading article: The tectonic plates below British politics are shifting
Published: 07 June 2006
Tony Blair gave a speech yesterday in which he insisted that civil servants must "learn from business"
Leading article: A revolution on two wheels
Published: 07 June 2006
People get on their bikes for all sorts of different reasons. In London, where the number of people cycling has risen by 50 per cent over the past five years, some will have become frustrated by an overcrowded and unreliable public transport system
Leading article: These vital lessons from a terrible day
Published: 06 June 2006
The report argues that while the plans of individual emergency agencies are largely satisfactory, there needs to be more co-operation and communication between them.
Leading article: The lesser of two evils
Published: 06 June 2006
Alan Garcia's reelection as president of Peru is a remarkable comeback that in the turbulent climate of Latin American politics counts as a victory for continuity and moderation.
Leading article: A chance for Labour to renew itself
Published: 05 June 2006
All of a sudden, the post of Deputy Prime Minister seems to be the most desirable job in British politics. A number of Labour ministers have, either directly or indirectly, signalled their interest in the position in recent weeks.
Leading article: Intelligent police work?
Published: 05 June 2006
The uncertainty surrounding last Friday's police raid on two houses in east London undoubtedly ratchets up the pressure on the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair.
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