The Comment Channel
Leading article: A cause for outrage, but not a cause for surprise

The latest edition of Novaya Gazeta will have a far greater impact than this liberal Russian newspaper is accustomed to making. The reason is that it prints fragments of the last article by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose assassination last Saturday shocked the world
Leading article: Shocking figure reveals true cost of the war

Numbers have been a source of contention in coverage of the Iraq war since well before the US and British invaded Iraq
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The Third Leader: Sea-mail
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Michael McCarthy: Are carbon offsets an excuse to carry on polluting?
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Catherine Townsend: Sleeping around
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Cooper Brown: He's Out There
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Julia Stephenson: Green Goddess
- David Usborne: 'Everything reminds me of 9/11. I was watching from the first second'
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The Third Leader: Toy town
- Peter Hain: It is time for Northern Ireland to govern itself
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Joan Bakewell: How to solve the prisons crisis: free all the women
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The Sketch: Are the leaders mutating into a single species?
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Mary Dejevsky: Why I pity poor old Kazakhstan
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Miles Kington: A situation so tricky there is just no word of for it
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The Sketch: This most average of foreign secretaries makes Jack Straw seem almost dashing