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Leading article: A moment of clarity amid the bloodshed and carnage

The once great metropolis of Baghdad is now effectively a dozen small cities, each patrolled by its own sectarian militia. Only the Kurdish regions in the north of the country are unscathed. And even the future of that enclave of relative stability is in doubt as Iraq hurtles, apparently inexorably, towards final break-up.

Leading article: An underlying sickness

At a time when our health service is wrestling with a major debt crisis, it is dispiriting to learn that it is also wasting a huge amount of money on a daily basis. The Department of Health claims today that the NHS could save £2.2bn a year if local trusts improved the way they handled certain services.

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