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Andrew Roberts: Evil like Stalin but a fool, too

Published: 31 December 2006

Instead of building up Iraq's economy, he embarked on a lunatic scheme

Patrick Cockburn: Iron man who proved to be a tin god

Published: 31 December 2006

He fancied himself as a leading player on the world stage, but posing for the cameras while butchering his own secured his downfall. By Patrick Cockburn

Sarah Sands: As the Gibbs well know, there is no such thing as a free holiday

Published: 31 December 2006

It is insidiously corrupting to have friends richer than you

Michael Rose: America's forces got their money. Ours have been betrayed

Published: 31 December 2006

While Commandant of the Staff College at Camberley in the early 1990s, I used to lecture young officers on the moral component of fighting power. I would explain that the military ethos was very different from that which existed in the civilian workplace: soldiers had to be willing to sacrifice their lives, not merely risk them, for a common cause. Soldiers therefore had to have different disciplines and values from civilians both in peace and war if they were to sustain this essential component of fighting power. I used to end my lecture with the exhortation to remain vigilant and militant in pursuing the interests of soldiers rather than those of politicians.

Paul Barker: The Masters of the Universe are back. But for how long?

Published: 31 December 2006

The City lads are toasting their bonuses, an Etonian is a whisker away from No 10 but the dream of a meritocracy lives on

A C Grayling: A moment of catharthis? Or simply bathos and absurdity?

Published: 31 December 2006

The small ambiguity of Hitler's demise led to myths

Rupert Cornwell: Out of America

Published: 31 December 2006

The 110th Congress convenes this week, and this time the Republicans won't be calling the shots

Ellie Levenson: Allow men to take more responsibility for sex

Published: 30 December 2006

A man should be able to go to the chemist and pick up the emergency contraception

Richard Ingrams' Week: History isn't repeated - nor is wisdom

Published: 30 December 2006

A tired, discredited Prime Minister. An honours scandal. A year of drought. Historians poring over the now-released public records for 1976 have seized on all the parallels with the sad situation today.

Philip Thornton: Bloated bonuses are no way to reward success

Published: 29 December 2006

Just one FTSE 100 chief executive was made redundant - and he got a £5m pay-off

Lucy Caldwell: The Story So Far...

Published: 29 December 2006

When my best friend Alice was five she asked her mother how you got babies. "Well," her mum said, "you just be yourself and be nice to people and you'll make lots of friends. And one day, one of those friends will ask you to marry him and then you'll have babies."

Maurice Frankel: The FoI was an achievement its creators now want to undermine

Published: 28 December 2006

There is little doubt that new powers which came into force two years ago have influenced Whitehall thinking, but ministers seem intent on bringing in changes that could undermine their own achievements.

John Lidstone: If only Blair had reformed the honours system...

Published: 28 December 2006

In that brave confident morning of election victory, it was all going to be different

Michael Brown: Gordon Brown please note: Gerald Ford inherited power and then lost the election

Published: 28 December 2006

Even Churchill, after five years without the people's ratification, lost two elections

Cooper Brown: He's Out There

Published: 28 December 2006

'Remember you assholes voted me "least likely to succeed"? Well, Cooper's hit the big time!'

Catherine Townsend: Sleeping Around

Published: 28 December 2006

Sitting on top of a mountain at my dad's house in a dry county in America, I start to realise that the holiday season is going to be abstemious in more ways than one. I'm in a houseful of nosy relatives, there's no booze on tap and Paul is a continent away with his family.

Richard Dowden: This war in Africa should not be taking place

Published: 27 December 2006

Nothing will unite Somalis like a fight with Ethiopia, with whom they've fought two wars

Aidan McQuade: Why do we punish the victims of slavery?

Published: 27 December 2006

Britain has created a legal framework which makes it virtually impossible to take action against trafficking

Daisy Donovan: Take It From Me

Published: 27 December 2006

'They're supposed to deliver the parcels, not keep them cosy and warm in some godforsaken depot'

The Third Leader: And now for the good news...

Published: 27 December 2006

Good day to you. As we stand, sit or slump suspended in that no person's time between the old year and the new, I thought it might be instructive, and consistent with this space's implacably cheery attitude, to take some "positives" from the past 12 months and look boldly forward to the next.

Dylan Jones: Discovering Philip Roth

Published: 26 December 2006

'Roth has written masterpieces at an age when most authors can't string two sentences together'

Anthony Daniels: Murder is murder, whatever the victim's character

Published: 26 December 2006

We don't believe in the Immaculate Virgin, but we do believe in the immaculate victim

The Third Leader: The pleasures of the press

Published: 26 December 2006

This is the place where, traditionally and softly, in case your parents or in-laws are near, we inquire: how was it for you? Turkey or goose or Buon Natale pumpkin ravioli, Cyberman mask or Let's Dance Barbie, really, you shouldn't have bothered, socks always come in useful, problems with Christmas-tree lights interfering with Wii, and Wii interfering with hearing aids now sorted, even if the dog is acting strangely, truces holding, still smiling? Excellent.

Michael Bywater: Could the real you log on, please?

Published: 24 December 2006

Thanks to YouTube and MySpace, this was the year we could all be famous for five minutes

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto: Oh, we Brits of little faith

Published: 24 December 2006

The real successor to religion is not science but our glib, fast-fix culture
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