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Steve Richards: Blunkett's only real revelation is just how sidelined the Cabinet has been under Blair Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 October 2006

Blair paid attention to Brown, Prescott and Rupert Murdoch. Their diaries would be worth reading

Janet Street-Porter: It's time to ditch this unhealthy stereotype Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 October 2006

Can I write in praise of the North? If you've been reading the woeful tale of Fat Britain, the main culprits all seems to reside north of the Humber. Not only has Britain been shamed this week as the fattest country in Europe, a north-south divide seems to emerge, according to the latest Health Report for England.

Joan Smith: Madonna doesn't need to 'rescue' this child Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 12 October 2006

The best way to help children is to improve conditions in their home country

Deborah Orr: Hope doesn't always make economic sense Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 October 2006

The public fondly imagines there should be no ceiling on what the NHS invests to save its bacon

Hamish McRae: YouTube is young, democratic and shows that the world is changing before our eyes Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 October 2006

The big point is that it's a pretty pure market, and like all markets it signals what people really want

Mark Steel: Why didn't Straw mention the veil to the Saudis? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 October 2006

Somehow it all slipped his mind, and instead of questioning their ethics he sold them arms

Brian Viner: Country Life Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 11 October 2006

Miss Whiplash, who lives about five fields away from us, is selling off the macabre memorabilia that she collected while she was working as a dominatrix and madam in London.

Thomas Sutcliffe: Has North Korea made the world a safer place? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 October 2006

We're told that North Korea's nuclear test registered 4.2 on the Richter scale as measured by the US Geological Survey. Small earthquake, nobody - so far as we know - dead. But according to the international media's informal seismographic, the tremor was far greater, setting off all kinds of global diplomatic aftershocks. Teacups rattled in Beijing, plaster came off the ceiling in Washington and in Tokyo tiles slipped off the roof and shattered.

Steve Richards: Ignore all this cheap populism on prisons Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 October 2006

The argument that prison is, in some cases, a waste of money should permeate beyond Hampstead

Deborah Orr: So many good intentions squandered Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 October 2006

If everyone knows so clearly what needs to be done, then why is the problem so intractable?

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 10 October 2006

'Spring-Heeled Jack Straw is at it again, leaping up in demonic fashion to terrorise decent voters'

Joan Smith: Putin's Russia failed to protect this brave woman Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 October 2006

Her death demonstrates the truth of what she wrote about his lawless state

Andreas Whittam Smith: Has the Turner Prize lost its way? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 09 October 2006

I don't get it. This is, like Duchamp's urinal, art only because the artist says it is art

John Rentoul: Power dressing, Cameron-style We're all cross-dressers now Dave Through the Looking Glass Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 October 2006

Straw has taken a right-wing position on an issue that is proxy for race

Joan Smith: The veil is a feminist issue Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 October 2006

Women don't wear the burqa in Afghanistan because they like it; they wear it because they are afraid of being killed if they don't. Women haven't suddenly gone back to wearing the veil in Iraq because they're pious; they do it because women who refuse have been murdered. I loathe the niqab and the burqa when I see them there. And I can't pretend I don't find them equally offensive on my local high street

Editor-At-Large: Madonna's got it right for once - this is the way to help Africa Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 October 2006

Madonna is not adopting a child from Africa to bring home to London. What she's doing in Malawi may be considered far more worthwhile than the public perception of Meg Ryan or Angelina Jolie, who rescue cute toddlers from deprived countries and are then photographed at airports around the world with a cuddly, smiley, orphan. Madonna's staff have spent the last few weeks in Africa, helping to set up the Raising Malawi centre to feed and educate orphans in a country (the 10th poorest in the world) where the population has been decimated by Aids.

Alan Watkins: The age of the Silly Party is here. Which is bad news for Gordon's Sensible Party Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 08 October 2006

Cameron was unashamed in his passion for the Prime Minister

Deborah Orr: Capricious or not, celebrity adopters are a symptom of a crisis at home Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 October 2006

Madonna's people may be furiously denying that the star was doing anything more controversial than kissing babies in Malawi this week. But the story of her alleged adoption still illustrates perfectly how celebrities are gradually becoming the culture's useful idiots.

Brian Viner: When Amir met Ali it was the real deal rather than reality-show ersatz Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 October 2006

He's a deeply impressive character, this boy, the more so as he is still a boy

Will Self: PsychoGeography Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 07 October 2006

Strictly ballroom

Matthew Norman: Only the US could ban online gambling Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 October 2006

The entire US mythology is built on the twin Wild West activities of cards and shooting each other

Christina Patterson: Macho government is on the warpath Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 October 2006

It's hard to think of a Western government more parodically testosterone-fuelled than that of George W Bush. Here he is: the taciturn man of the people, strutting around his ranch in cowboy boots and jeans. Here he is again: the conquering hero, kitted out like Barbie's Ken, hailing his new Jerusalem in Iraq. And here's the 43rd President of the United States: suited, booted and quietly informing the world that he will hunt down and "smoke out" America's enemies - that he will launch, in fact, a war that can never end.

Thomas Sutcliffe: Don't cast Asperger's on Holbein Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 06 October 2006

I felt a little for Boris Johnson the other day, fending off the wasp-like attacks that followed his foolish decision to say what was actually on his mind, rather than process his statements through the usual Passport Control of political acceptability.

Steve Richards: For the Tories, as for Labour, this has been a conference that has failed to move them on Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 05 October 2006

One lesson is that Cameron should aim to make one good speech instead of two mediocre ones

Mark Steel: Yo, dudes, meet the new Conservative crew Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 05 October 2006

By this time next year, they'll have ordered Michael Ancram to be gay
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