Leading Articles
Leading article: Struggle for the soul of a nation in a state of flux
Published: 11 October 2006
A full six months may remain before French voters go to the polls to elect their next president. But the preliminary skirmishing already affords an absorbing preview of the battles to come
Leading article: A problem consuming Britain
Published: 11 October 2006
National self-image can be a deceptive thing. Economists tell us that Britain is in a healthy state compared with the rest of Europe. And we are used to hearing about the vibrancy of our cultural life
Leading article: Diplomacy remains the only viable way forward
Published: 10 October 2006
The nuclear test announced by North Korea yesterday, and subsequently verified, has ended three years of international uncertainty and unleashed a predictable furore. If Kim Jong Il's hermit kingdom was not already a pariah state, it certainly qualifies as one now.
Leading article: A wind of change
Published: 10 October 2006
Eaglesham Moor is staking its claim to posterity. In three years, this stretch of land south of Glasgow will be home to the largest onshore wind farm in Europe.
Leading article: A vicious circle of short-termism and neglect
Published: 09 October 2006
If we were to compile a list of the most egregious failings of the New Labour government, prisons and prison policy would have to come near to the top. Nine and half years after winning power, there is still not the slightest sign that ministers have come close to getting to grips with the problem. The evidence rather suggests the opposite.
Leading article: A firebrand for freedom is extinguished
Published: 09 October 2006
Whoever stands behind the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Mr Putin cannot escape political responsibility for a climate in which contract killings are no rarity and those who take a public stand fear for their lives
Leading article: Lifestyle envy
Published: 09 October 2006
Rejoice, Rejoice! as an earlier prime minister said in another context. That nasty spat with the French over Iraq seems to be dead and buried. We are now best friends again - so much so that more than one in five Britons confesses to wishing that they had been - fancy this - born French.
Leading article: A new state of mind
Published: 08 October 2006
It feels like a turning point. Quite suddenly, the stigma attached to the most common form of mental illness - manic depression or bipolar disorder - is lifting
Leading article: Britain behind the veil
Published: 08 October 2006
Imagine a Britain in which it was illegal to wear a long beard, or ringlets; to wear a skull cap, turban or headscarf; to wear a crucifix around the neck or a tilaka mark on the forehead
Leading article: Mr Straw's wrong conclusion
Published: 07 October 2006
Leading article: A contemporary view of the world
Published: 07 October 2006
Charles Saatchi could be forgiven for wondering if much has changed in our attitudes to contemporary art in the past nine years. The opening of his new show, USA Today, at the Royal Academy has been greeted by the same moral outrage that was hurled in the direction of his Sensation exhibition in 1997.
Leading article: To the back of the class
Published: 07 October 2006
The wind is blowing against coursework, just as fiercely as it once blew in its favour. Not that the arguments have changed much over the years.
Leading article: We are repeating the mistakes of the past
Published: 06 October 2006
Extra police have been drafted into Windsor after several nights of clashes between white and Asian youths outside an Asian-owned dairy, apparently over plans to build a mosque on the site
Leading article: A good start, but no more than that
Published: 06 October 2006
One cheer for Monterrey, which is where ministers from the G8 rich nations and from the emerging economies of China, India, Brazil and South Africa have been meeting to discuss climate change
Leading article: A liberal Conservative presents his first draft
Published: 05 October 2006
This time last year, the Conservative Party was celebrating the end of a rousing conference that had doubled as the inaugural hustings for its leadership contest
Leading article: A settlement comes closer
Published: 05 October 2006
There is turmoil and violence in so much of the world, with trouble deepening in so many regions, that it is almost refreshing to turn to Northern Ireland and the latest report by the Independent Monitoring Commission, which provides evidence that the IRA is disappearing.
Leading article: Beware loose talk about a clash of civilisations
Published: 04 October 2006
An increasing number of people see a dark cloud hanging over Europe. They fear that the birthplace of the Enlightenment and the cradle of free speech is being silenced by the growing assertiveness of an intolerant strain of Islam
Leading article: Mr Hague spins the globe
Published: 04 October 2006
A well-constructed speech, delivered with panache, is always welcome at a party conference, and by those standards one of the most reliable performers is William Hague
Leading article: A storm of violence that we have done little to quell
Published: 03 October 2006
The Palestinian territories could be heading for disaster. There are fears that unrest could lead to a total breakdown of law and order, perhaps even civil war.
Leading article: Prohibition in the air
Published: 03 October 2006
There is a streak of puritanism which has never left the character of the United States of America. The Pilgrim Fathers would have been proud of the decision by Congress last week to outlaw gambling on the internet.
Leading article: Mr Cameron's task is still only just beginning
Published: 02 October 2006
The Conservatives have opened their conference in Bournemouth in better shape than looked possible a year ago. By some considerable margin, David Cameron is proving a more successful leader compared with his recent predecessors. The Tories have been ahead in the polls for several months now, a significant achievement for a new leader of a party that had been trailing Labour for more than a decade.
Leading article: No more grandstanding
Published: 02 October 2006
The prospects of a United Nations peacekeeping mission arriving in Darfur are fading fast.
Leading article: Class struggle
Published: 02 October 2006
O tempora, o mores! What is the British aristocracy coming to? For decades the publisher, Debrett's, has made guides for the well-born that dispense advice on important topics, such as how to address obscure members of the peerage and the correct way to eat soup. Its Etiquette and Modern Manners has been a rock of civility set in an uncivilised sea.
Leading article: Right war, wrong tactics
Published: 01 October 2006
Oh what a paradoxical war. Five years ago this week, the world - including all the Muslim members of the United Nations - came together to support the removal by force of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan
Leading article: With a little bit of goodwill, we can still stop global warming
Published: 30 September 2006
There are still 70 million households in China without electricity. That fact puts the Chinese economic miracle in some kind of context. The world's most populous nation may have pulled 250 million people out of poverty since the days of Chairman Mao, but it still has a long way to go. That's why China is insisting that the developed world should bear the brunt of cutting greenhouse gases and that - after the rich world has developed the technology to deal with the problem - it should pay for it to be transferred to poorer nations.
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