The Comment Channel
Leading article: Mr Brown submits his application for No 10

Gordon Brown's speech to the Labour Party conference was not, despite all the advance billing, the speech of his life: it was nothing like the prime-ministerial tour de force he had delivered the year before
Leading article: The murderous fruits of neglect

Safia Amajan was attempting to build a new, civilised Afghanistan as the director of the Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar
- Denis MacShane: Europe: the issue that dare not speak its name
- Leonard Doyle: 'The small advances women have made are now being wiped out'
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Dylan Jones: Thoughts on fashionable Puglia
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The Third Leader: Critical bashing
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Our Man in New York: Invasion of the pink bunnies is making me see red
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Charles Nevin: Age doesn't weary, so don't condemn
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Rebecca Tyrrel: Days Like Those
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Ron Manager: Is that a bung in your pocket or just a lazy lob?
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Dominic Lawson: This Government can't stop interfering
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The Sketch: Yes, it's all our fault. But how will the voters like being told that?
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Philip Hensher: Gated communities are promoting irrational fears
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Alex James: How I became a big cheese
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Miles Kington: The leaves are green but conkers are falling. Is it autumn?