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Steve Richards: My green test... when will it be cheaper and easier to use a bus or train instead of a car? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 31 October 2006

While we are on the subject, what about more cycle lanes to compare with Berlin or Stockholm?

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 31 October 2006

'The whiff of Sixties hippiedom and Nelson Mandela saintliness are, I'm sure, unconscious'

Brian Viner: Here's a tip... don't let the witch hustle you Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 31 October 2006

Although I have lived in the United States, acquiring a US social security number, a clapped-out Chevrolet and an enduring affection for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and although I have crossed the Atlantic at least 50 times, either for holidays or on writing assignments, I unfailingly find myself disorientated by the way in which everything, from the language to the simple light switch, at first seems so very much the same as in Britain while, on closer acquaintance, being so very different.

Andreas Whittam Smith: We must ration emissions Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 30 October 2006

There would have to be a mechanism for enforcement - just as we had food inspectors during the war

John Rentoul: History may decide that invading was right. They just got the wrong country Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 October 2006

There were not enough soldiers, and Blair shares the responsibility. At best he can say that he eventually gave Iraqis a sort of costly freedom

Rowan Pelling: 'Penthouse' I rejected. But now I'm ready for you to see me in the buff Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 October 2006

Ten years ago I would never have posed for a naked picture. So why now, in the age of Size Zero?

Alan Watkins: The guilt for this debacle is spread wide, and Gordon Brown cannot escape blame Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 October 2006

Iraq is the largest misjudgement of foreign policy since WW2. Mr Blair believed in the case for war. That's a form of insanity

Joan Smith: Send those foreigners back where they belong: Britain Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 October 2006

How different it was in 1989, when we cheered these plucky nations

Editor-At-Large: Come on then, Greg. Sing if you're glad to be green Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 29 October 2006

It's fascinating how the Tories have quickly tried to seize the initiative by claiming to be the party for whom gay affairs are "no big deal". Greg Barker, Conservative MP for Bexhill and Battle, left his wife and three children in July. He claims that a subsequent affair with a male interior designer they had hired to refurbish the family home was "irrelevant" - well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Frankly, I would have cheered from the rafters if he'd had the guts to say, "I left my wife because I was lying and unfaithful [leaving aside the sex of any lovers, which is irrelevant] and I'd rather we were friends." But married gays are nothing if not complete hypocrites - take the Liberal Democrat Mark Oaten, who cheated on his wife with a rent boy: he has rallied to Mr Barker's side, claiming a big support network now exists in Westminster for secret gays and telling journalists, "Loads of people think: there but for the grace of God go I."

Will Self: PsychoGeography Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 October 2006

Anywhere but here

John Walsh: btw Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 October 2006

Should we keep a wary eye on Chris de Burgh, the Irish crooner responsible for "Lady in Red"? Two weeks ago, he revealed on BBC1 that he has the power to heal people. "I met someone in the West Indies who wasn't able to walk. I put my hands on him and he was able to get up," he told Gloria Hunniford, adding that he was hoping to "play down" his gift (perhaps not appearing on TV might help). Next we learnt that he cured a writer's paralysed left arm by placing his hands on it. Now he's informed the Birmingham Post that his next big market will be Iran, where (he was informed by fans) "the two biggest stars are Madonna and Chris de Burgh". He says he feels the same missionary zeal about playing there as he did in South Africa in the 1970s. Uh-oh. So far, he's made the lame walk, he's cured the sick and given disenfranchised blacks the vote, and now he'll bring peace to the Middle East. How soon will he change his name to Messiah and adopt an African baby?

Brian Viner: New York Knicks and American savvy make cheesy dream team for the fans Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 28 October 2006

On Tuesday evening in Manhattan I went with my wife and children to see the New York Knicks play the Philadelphia 76ers in a pre-season basketball game.

Matthew Norman: Borat, Bush and the dark arts of satire Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 27 October 2006

He offends anyone who takes pleasure in being offended, or regards it as a moral obligation

Steve Richards: Immigration is opening up all those issues that the Government would rather forget Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 October 2006

It is expensive to get the million excluded in Britain to work compared with employing a bunch of Poles

Janet Street-Porter: Why this award is a waste of energy Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 26 October 2006

Has the world gone mad? In New York this week, the supermarket chain Wal-Mart received an award for its "contribution to the environment" from the Hollywood filmmakers Bob and Harvey Weinstein. It is true that a year ago Wal-Mart reacted to criticism that focused on a range of issues, from their employees' pay and conditions to the devastating effect they have had on town centres across America, by announcing a raft of environmentally themed initiatives.

Mark Steel: Marie Antoinette was, like, so famous... Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 October 2006

Will everything revolve around the private behaviour of the well-known, ignoring events all around them?

Hamish McRae: Can we prove Shakespeare wrong and find ways for the old and young to live together? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 October 2006

People selling goods and services to the elderly so often seem stuck in a time warp

Brian Viner: Country Life Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 25 October 2006

The last time I named and attempted to shame a company guilty of what I considered to be poor service, I was almost swept away in a torrent of righteous anger. On that occasion, three years ago, the object of all the excitement was a side of smoked wild salmon, supposed to be delivered in time for Christmas Day, and I won't go into the whole sorry business again, except to say that I wrote about it and a sub- editor gave my article the melodramatic headline "How a missing salmon ruined my Christmas", which it hadn't. "Diddums" was the gist of many of the e-mails.

Thomas Sutcliffe: The strange case of the cop and the cult Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 October 2006

I don't know a great deal about Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley. He wears a cheerful smile in the picture on the About Us section of the City of London Police website and, reading his brief biography, he would seem to be one of those characters whose impulse towards public service has found most congenial expression in uniform. He's seen service in Iraq with the Territorial Army and has completed a six-month attachment to the Foreign Office as the senior UK Police adviser to the Iraqi police force.

Steve Richards: It would be a mistake getting out of Iraq now Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 October 2006

The decisions must be based on what is happening in Iraq, the strength of the government and army

John Walsh: Tales of the City Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 24 October 2006

'Is the Kremlin, that off-puttingly bleak and spiky fortress, really anyone's idea of something wonderful?'

Andreas Whittam Smith: Expel the deadbeats, but preserve the independents Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 23 October 2006

No single party should command a majority in the House of Lords, however dominant in the Commons

John Rentoul: David Cameron's tax promises can only profit one man: Prime Minister Brown Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 October 2006

Gordon is like a hurricane - no one knows where it will hit

Rowan Pelling: Good, honest, goldplated bad taste Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 October 2006

Why should Wags have all the fun? Pull on your boob tube and drop your aitches: it's time to party

Joan Smith: I am an atheist. Should I wear a big flashing sign on my forehead? Independent Porfolio Content

Published: 22 October 2006

The Government has been sending warm signals to religious groups
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